Despite the storm of angry reactions that swept the world of football, against the performance of Zambian referee Jani Sikazwe, who refereed the match between Tunisia and Mali in the African Nations, suddenly and without warning, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced his return to the stadiums again.
While everyone is waiting for CAF to take action against Sikazwe, he appointed an assistant referee in the video technology (VAR) against Gabon and Morocco, which will take place tomorrow, Tuesday.
The match between Tunisia and Mali witnessed what was described as an "arbitration disaster", whose hero was the Zambian, who managed the match, as he decided suddenly to end the match in the 85th minute, before deciding to complete the match after the opposition of the technical staff of the Tunisian team led by coach Munther Al-Kabir.
Sikazwe repeated the same thing again, after he finished the match 10 seconds before the end of the original time, declaring Mali a 1-0 victory without declaring the calculated time instead of lost, despite the meeting stopping for several minutes to review the VAR technology.
The technical staff of the Tunisian national team objected to the referee's decision after he blew the final whistle, but Sikazwe insisted on his decision to remove the referees and the two teams from the stadium.
A few minutes later, the fourth referee, Helder Martins de Carvalho, returned with his assistants to resume the match without Sikazoe, so that the Malians returned to the field to play the remaining time, but the Tunisian team preferred not to return to resume the match, according to the official website of the CAF.
Munther Al-Kabeer described Sikazwi's management of the match as "inexplicable."
Ibrahima Kone scored the only goal of the match from a penalty kick in the 48th minute.
After play resumed after the 85th minute, Bilal Toure was expelled from the Mali national team in the 87th minute, before the referee blew the final whistle with 13 seconds remaining at the end of the 90th minute.
The second half witnessed more than one stop, including two long stops to return to the mouse when calculating the penalty kick for the Mali team, as well as calculating a penalty kick for Tunisia, which Wahbi Khazri missed the opportunity to score in the 77th minute.