Walid Al-Attar: “Kaf” officially informed us of the wipes crisis

Walid Al-Attar, executive director of the Football Association, said that the general secretary of the Confederation of African Affairs in Egypt told him before the date of the youth match on Friday, and his Tunisian counterpart that the match will be played as scheduled.

Al-Attar added, during an interview with Nayel Sport today: “There was a problem with the delay in the results of the swabs for the players, as the swabbing of the players who joined the national team did not arrive until yesterday by Thursday afternoon, forcing him to send an email complaint to the African Union. “

The Executive Director of the Football Association continued: “There were two players who were named negative and later positive, namely Ahmed Nabil and Hamza Alaa, so we went to the same analysis laboratory in which the African Union (CAF) analyzes the player samples for the Corona swabs, but we had no official with us as usual from (K) and the result came in. The players underwent a scan and cardiac tests, and they were sent to the medical committee, and we did not receive an answer to know our position on the participation or not in the party “.

Walid Al-Attar added: “The samples were split between two laboratories and this caused confusion. I emailed the matter to the African Union and excused them for the number of players from all teams.

The Executive Director of the Football Association completed his statements indicating that he was discussing with the head of the mission, Jamal Muhammad Ali; Know how to protest according to the tournament regulations.

The youth team was scheduled to face their Tunisian counterpart on Friday in the second round of the group stage of the North Africa Cup of Nations in Mauritania.