USM Algiers requests postponement of the Confederation Cup final – New Algeria

The management of the Algerian Federation of the Capital asked the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to postpone the dates of the two scheduled Confederation Cup final matches, home and away, on the 10th and 17th of next May.

The Algerian club, Ittihad Al-Asimah, resorted to this request after its appeal in resolution The “K” was taken against him last Wednesday. The judge ruled that he lost in the first leg of the semi-final of the continental competition, to the Moroccan club Nahdet Berkane, with a score of (3-0).

The first leg of the Confederation Cup semi-final was scheduled for last Sunday, at the “July 5, 1962” Olympic Stadium in Algiers.

But the meeting He didn’t play. This is because Nahdet Berkane Club refused to participate in the B confrontationAlternative shirts Provided by the Algerian Football Federation. He insisted on playing the match with the shirts he brought from Morocco. She was detained by Algerian customs when the mission arrived at Houari Boumediene Airport in Algiers, last Friday.

it’s done detention These shirts contain a political slogan that includes a “fake map” of Morocco with the occupied territories of Western Sahara added to it.

The management of the Capital Union waited for the decision of the CAF Committee for Interclub Competitions to file a complaint with the International Sports Court and another complaint with the Ethics Committee of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA).

The Capital Union moves to Morocco

In the same context, it is expected that You head Today, Friday, the Algerian club, Ittihad Algeria, will travel to Morocco to face Nahdet Berkane, next Sunday, for the second leg of the semi-finals of the African Confederation Cup.

The flight will start at three o’clock after noon Algerian time (Sasa 14 UTC). It will be from Houari Boumediene International Airport, in Algiers, towards the Moroccan city of Oujda. This was on board an Egyptian Airlines plane.

The delegation of the Algerian representative will spend the night in one of the hotels in the city ofSaidia“, in northeastern Morocco, near the city of Berkane.

Officials of the Algerian club Ittihad Al-Asimah preferred to move to Morocco and participate in the sporting confrontation, despite the injustice they were subjected to by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

The Algerian Federation decided to play the second leg in the city of Berkane, to avoid additional penalties from the CAF, which could amount to being banned from participating in African competitions for a period of four years.

Ittihad Al-Capital Club also still hopes to… Recover his right By the competent international sports bodies, so that the President of the Algerian Football Federation, Walid Sadi, is currently in Switzerland, to defend the club before the Ethics Committee of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). And also at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TASS).