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Mohamed Yousry Morshed
Friday 16 October 2020
1:45 pm
The African Football Confederation decided to appoint Zambian referee Jani Sikazwe to lead the Moroccan Wydad’s match with Al-Ahly in the semi-final first leg of the African Champions League.
The return match between the Egyptian and Moroccan teams will take place tomorrow, Saturday at the “Mohammed V” stadium in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, while the return match will be played on October 23, in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Sikazoy managed 3 matches by 4 referees in the current championship of the Moroccan teams, where last December he managed the match Raja and Vitaclope in the group stage in Congo and ended with the victory of the Moroccan team with a goal from Nateef, and in the same month he managed in the group stage the match between Wydad and Petro Atlético de Angola and the Moroccan team won 4-1 Then, Raja of Morocco and Mazembe in the round of 16, Raja won 2-0.
Who is Sikawzy?
Sikawzi is 41 years old and works as a teacher. He was included in the referee list at the 2008 “Cosava U-20” tournament, which is organized for the South African teams, as a substitute for one of the referees who failed the physical fitness tests before the tournament.
The Zambian referee became famous for providing the opportunity without counting many errors, as well as for announcing many yellow cards, which led to 365 cautions.
Egypt matches
The Zambian referee has previously managed 5 matches for the Egyptian teams throughout their history, and they are: the final of Egypt and Cameroon at the 2017 African Nations Championship in Gabon, in which the Lions won (2-1), and Nigeria and Egypt in the African Nations Qualifiers, which ended in a 1-1 draw.
He also managed the match between Mozambique and Egypt in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers in Brazil, which ended with the Pharaohs’ victory with a clean goal. And the match between Egypt and South Africa in the Olympic qualifiers, in which the Egyptian Olympic team won with two clean goals, and the match between Egypt and Mali in the 2011 African Youth Championship, and the Pharaohs lost it with a clean goal.
Ban is my goal
The Egyptian team faced their Nigerian host in March 2016 in the qualifying rounds of the African Cup of Nations.
After the Egyptian team was late, Mohamed Salah scored the equalizer in the 90th minute, bringing the Pharaohs closer to qualifying for Kan.
Then Salah went alone towards the goal, to score the official qualifying goal without waiting for the result of the last match, but the referee blew the final whistle to deprive Salah of a detective goal.
Ramos is expelled
The Zambian referee retracted the dismissal of Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos in the 2016 Club World Cup final, between the royal team and Japan’s Kashima.
Ramos received a first yellow card in the 55th minute, before making another mistake in the final minutes of the match, and the referee turned to him to announce the yellow card, before he backed off.
The match ended in a 2-2 draw, before Real Madrid won the World Cup with a goal in extra time from Cristiano Ronaldo.
Corruption charges and suspension ends with acquittal
Sikawzi always faces courtesy accusations from the owners of the field in their tournaments, especially in the calculation of penalties, since the referee counted 25 penalties in his history, 22 of them for the owner of the field, but the 2018 African Champions League continues being the worst event for the referee.
In the Esperance match and on August 1, the second leg of the semi-finals of the CAF Champions League, which were played in November 2018, the result indicated that the Tunisian champion advanced (3-2), but was an insufficient result to qualify after losing the first leg by a clean goal.
With the arrival of the 78th minute, the Zambian referee annulled a correct goal for the Angolan champion, after which Esperance scored a fourth goal to qualify for the African final against Al-Ahly.
The crisis erupted after the August 1 club filed two complaints with the CAF and the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), requesting the repetition of the match on neutral ground, with the referee team led by Zambian Jani Sikazwe sanctioned , according to its president, Carlos Hendrik.
The disciplinary committee of the African Football Confederation (CAF) decided to suspend the Zambian referee on November 16, 2018 from the practice of football activity due to his bias towards the Tunisian team, and was subjected to a hearing on charges of corruption and bribes from the Tunisian team.
After the hearing, the referee was acquitted, being sufficient a suspension of 4 months, since he returned to direct the matches in March 2019.
back
Sikazoy took control again and led the Lobby Stars and Sundowns match in the group stage of the CAF Champions League in March 2019, then managed the match between the Sahel and Burkina Faso champion Salitas, which was they played in the group stage for the Confederate Championship, and then the match between Mazembe and Simba of Tanzania in the second leg of the eighth day of the African Champions League. It ended in the interest of the Congolese team 4-1.
The match between Zamalek and Etoile Sahel was in the first leg of the last semifinals of the African Confederation Cup, which was held on April 28 at the Burj Al Arab stadium and ended with the victory of Al Obeid with a clean goal. Zamalek account.
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