Football: Senegal kicked out of AFCON

PARIS: Senegal have been disqualifed from the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations after crowd trouble forced their qualifier with Ivory Coast to be abandoned, said the Confederation of African Football (CAF) governing body. The decision was taken at a CAF disciplinary meeting in Cairo after violence flared in Dakar on Saturday, with Ivory Coast players and fans pelted with stones, bottles and chairs, fires lit in the stands and firecrackers thrown. “As a result, CAF decided to officially confirm the result of the match as 2-0 in favour of Ivory Coast and to consider Senegal the loser of the match and eliminated from the competition.”

Published in The Express Tribune, October 17^th, 2012.