Senegal-Morocco AFCON title decision within days, says CAS<\/p>\n
A speedy resolution to Senegal\u2019s appeal after being stripped of the Africa Cup \u2060of Nations (AFCON) title has \u2060been promised by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), who heard arguments on Thursday and said it will have a decision in days.<\/p>\n
Senegal are contesting the Confederation of African Football\u2019s (CAF) \u2060decision to declare Morocco champions, despite Senegal beating the hosts 1-0 after extra time in January\u2019s final in Rabat.<\/p>\n
Senegal walked off the pitch for 14 minutes after a penalty was awarded against them late \u2060in regulation time, with several players returning to the dressing room in protest before they resumed play.<\/p>\n
Morocco failed to convert the spot kick, sending the match into extra time, where Senegal scored the winner to secure victory.<\/p>\n
However, they were stripped of the title two months later after CAF\u2019s Appeal Board ruled that Senegal \u200chad forfeited the match by walking off the pitch, overturning the result and awarding a 3-0 victory to Morocco.<\/p>\n
Senegal quickly followed with an appeal to sport\u2019s highest court, CAS, which was lodged on March 25 but heard on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know it\u2019s a long wait for the fans a few months after the final between Senegal and Morocco,\u201d said CAS Director General Matthieu Reeb.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe timetable and the procedural calendar were established with the agreement of the parties involved in this case. So \u2060everybody knew about the timeline, and our objective as CAS, as the \u2060last instance authority, is to provide a reasoned award as soon as possible after the hearing today,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n
The long-running saga over the winner of this year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations title will be concluded within days, although Reeb did not \u2060give a definite date.<\/p>\n
\u201cI expect the decision to come not today, not tomorrow, but a few days later. The facts are set, are clear, and \u2060the discussions will be on some procedural issues and legal \u2060aspects,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The CAS panel, presided over by French sports law expert Gerald Simon with assistance from Italian international law professor Luigi Fumagalli and Hamburg-based lawyer and professor of law at the University of Zurich Ulrich Haas, heard the pleadings of the parties \u200cwho were represented by their lawyers, with the hearing completed on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Morocco\u2019s delegation did not speak to the media. Senegal General Secretary Abdoulaye Sow said they were confident.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the important thing is that sports law \u200cis \u200cupheld, and that this particular match is put to bed, for the sake of dignity and for Africa,\u201d Sow told reporters outside the hearing, which was held behind closed doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senegal-Morocco AFCON title decision within days, says CAS A speedy resolution to Senegal\u2019s appeal after being stripped of the Africa Cup \u2060of Nations (AFCON) title has \u2060been promised by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), who heard arguments on Thursday and said it will have a decision in days. Senegal are contesting the Confederation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","category-africa-sub-saharan","category-north-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naftimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}