A shocking response from the president of "FIFA" about the replay of the Algeria-Cameroon match!
FIFA President Gianni Infantino revealed that he was unaware of the appeal submitted by the Algerian Federation to replay the match between Algeria and Cameroon in the qualifiers for the World Cup "Qatar 2022".
In a press statement carried by the Algerian media, Infantino said in response to a question about the possibility of replaying the match due to refereeing errors that accompanied it: "I have no knowledge of this request," indicating that the Algerian Federation did not send a letter to "FIFA" about the match!
"Algeria played a good match, but unfortunately it is football," Infantino added.
The Algerian team had defeated Cameroon 1-0 in the first leg, before losing 1-2 back after an abnormal scenario, after extending the match for two additional periods at the end of the original time 1-0 for Cameroon, which is the same as the result of going, and in the extra two halves Algeria realized a tie, which means It qualified, but in the last second of the second overtime period, Cameroon scored a thunderbolt against the Algerian fans at home and among its fans, to bring the "Desert Warriors" out of the competition for a seat in the World Cup.
Immediately after the match, the Algerian Federation stated that it would demand the International Federation to repeat the second leg match against Cameroon, due to the "blatant arbitration", after the errors committed by the Gambian referee Bakari Gassama and affected the outcome of the match.
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