ABIDJAN- The local men's national football team of Guinea, in the race to qualify for the next CAN reserved for players playing in the African championships, arrived on the evening of this Friday, December 13 in Abidjan. She will play a friendly match there on Sunday against the local Elephants of Côte d'Ivoire, before her double confrontation in the CHAN qualifiers against Guinea-Bissau on December 20 and 28.
But a controversy undermined the morale of the team upon its arrival in the Ivorian capital. Indeed, as soon as they got off the plane, the local team was offered two buses and two different hotels. The sports ministry allegedly allocated a bus and a hotel to the team without notifying the federation, which also reserved a means of transport and another hotel for the delegation.
« Normally, the State, through the Ministry of Sports, manages all financial matters and administration is reserved for the federation. But the ministry reserved the hotel without contacting the Federation. Unaware that the Guinea vs Guinea-Bissau match officials are staying at the Pulman Hotel there. So, it is impossible for us to stay in the same hotel with the match officials, otherwise there will be suspicion of attempted bribery of the referees. This is what the federation wants to avoid. There is also an attempt to overcharge to make the State bleed. It's a shame » explains a Féguifoot official who joined Guineefoot.
The Ministry of Sports, for its part, denies and reassures its good faith and reminds that all the conditions are met beforehand to put the local team in comfort to achieve a positive result. A tug of war and controversies that arrive at the wrong time, when the players should rather concentrate their forces to remain united and united behind the local Syli National which remains the last hope of qualifying for a final phase of CAN in 2025. Very unfortunately.
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