South Africa football supervisors will meet Monday to talk about a “staggering” FIFA arrange that a 2018 World Cup qualifier against Senegal must be replayed after the referee controlled the outcome.
National affiliation president Danny Jordaan said Saturday in an announcement that issues for verbal confrontation could incorporate engaging the choice, composition to FIFA or making a lawful move.
He called the request to replay the match amid the November 6-14 worldwide window “crushing news that had focused on South Africans”.
South Africa crushed Senegal 2-1 at the gathering stage last November, yet both their objectives originated from questionable choices by since-prohibited Ghanaian ref Joseph Lamptey.
The punishment that empowered South Africa to lead the pack was granted for a non-existent handball with TV replays demonstrating the ball striking the thigh of a protector.
Afterward, Lamptey was requesting Senegalese players to withdraw for a free-kick when it was taken and the home group expanded their lead.
FIFA gave Lamptey an existence boycott for coordinate control and his allure was rejected for the current week by Switzerland-baaed worldwide game legal body CAS.
No points of interest of who may have affected the Ghanaian to settle the outcome have been discharged by FIFA.
Lamptey has a past filled with disputable choices in the national group and global club apparatuses, including permitting a handball objective and playing suspiciously long stretches of stoppage time.
The replay choice came for the current week after South Africa endured home and away thrashings by modest Cape Verde inside five days to reduce any desires for achieving the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Burkina Faso and Cape Verde have six focuses with two matches to play and Senegal five and South Africa one with three recreations left. Just gathering champs qualify.
South Africa have Burkina Faso in Johannesburg on October 7 and should likewise play Senegal away amid November.
Jordaan asked South Africans not to reprimand FIFA general secretary Fatma Samoura, a Senegalese.
“We hold her in high see as the principal African to hold this senior post in our reality football administering body,” he said.