Tunisian press reports revealed that the penalties for the Tunisian Esperance players will be implemented before its match against Zamalek scheduled for tomorrow in the second leg of the African Champions League quarter-final at Rades Stadium, even if the Tunisian club lodged an appeal to reduce the penalties issued against the club, its players and its technical staff.
The Tunisian site “Foot 24” said that a source in the Confederation Committee of the Confederation of African Football confirmed in media statements that any appeal made by Al-Tarja after the sanctions issued by the committee against him will not be seen before the Zamalek match, and if the appeal is accepted, he will be in the next matches either Complete the current championship or in the last season’s edition if he is eliminated against the Egyptian champion.
The AU Disciplinary Committee decided to suspend 6 matches, Khalil Shammam, the leader of Esperance, and 4 games, Abdel Raouf bin Ghaith, besides depriving technical director Moein El Shaabani and his assistant Magdy El Tarawy from sitting on the bench 4 games, in addition to a financial penalty of 160 thousand dollars, against the backdrop of match events The go-to that ended in Zamalek’s 3-1 victory at Cairo Stadium.
The Tunisian press shed light on the sanctions, and the “Online Online” website, which revealed its dissatisfaction with the sanctions, said, “The CAF is laying down violent penalties against Esperance … a huge fine and mass arrests in the proceeding,” explaining that Esperance paid the bill for the dispute with Ahmed Ahmed, president of the African Union. For football, while acknowledging that the excesses that occurred from the technical staff of the Esperance team and the players against Moroccan referee Ridouane Gayed were not acceptable.
While the newspaper “Al-Sabah News” said the same approach, after describing the “CAF” sanctions against the Tunisian Esperance team as cruel, while the “Al-Shahid” newspaper called, “CAF imposes heavy penalties on Esperance.”“.
The site “Foot 24” said: “The CAF imposes wholesale penalties on the Esperance” and transmitted the penalties on the technical staff and the players, stressing that the financial fine reaches 440 thousand Tunisian dinars.
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