Dylan Bettencourt
I-Egypt Football Association isole i-Senegal ngokuhlukumeza abadlali bayo ngokwebala ngesikhathi bedlala umdlalo wokuhlungela iNdebe yoMhlaba ngoLwesibili ebusuku.
Umdlalo wamanqamu we-Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), i-Egypt yabhekana ne-Senegal e-Qatar ngasekupheleni konyaka.
Njengoba kwenzeka kowamanqamu kowe-Afcon, i-Senegal iphume phambili sekushawa amaphenathi. Bawina ngamaphuzu alinganayo ngemuva kokuba abalandeli be-Senegal baxhophe abadlali base-Egypt ukuze bazame ukubaphazamisa.
UMohamed Salah ugeje iphenalthi yakhe ye-Egypt, ngesikhathi eshaya ibhola phezu kwepali ngaphambi kokuthi uzakwabo uSadio Mané ashaye iphenalthi ewinise i-Senegal.
I-Egyptian FA ithi baphinde bahlaselwa ngamatshe namabhodlela ebhasini ngaphambi kokuthi bangene enkundleni.
Yize kungakacaci ukuthi i-Egypt izowuphikisa yini umphumela, kubukeka sengathi abadlali bathintekile ngama-laser futhi lokho kususa ubulungiswa bomphumela womdlalo.
“Iqembu lesizwe lase-Egypt libhekene nokucwasa ngokwebala kubadlali babo ikakhulukazi uMohamed Salah. Isixuku siphinde sathusa abadlali ngokubajikijela ngamabhodlela nangamatshe ngesikhathi besazilolonga ngaphambi komdlalo,” kusho isitatimende se-FA.
Isitatimende siqhube ngokuthi abadlali nethimba labaqeqeshi baphinde bahlaselwa ngamatshe namabhodlela ebhasini ngaphambi kokuthi asuke.
“Amabhasi eqembu lase-Egypt nawo ake abhekana nokuhlaselwa okuholele ekutheni kuphuke amawindi kanye nokulimala. Izithombe namavidiyo afakiwe njengobufakazi besikhalazo.”
Ukunqoba kwe-Senegal kuzokwenza ukuthi ompetha base-Afrika babonakale okwesithathu eNdebeni yoMhlaba ngemuva kokuncintisana okokuqala ngonyaka ka-2002 neminyaka emine edlule e-Russia.
Khonamanjalo, uSalah – ngokungangabazeki umdlali ovelele emhlabeni – ngeke angenele umqhudelwano, ozoba ngoZibandlela.
I-Algeria, ebekwe endaweni yokuqala e-Afrika, nayo iphuthelwe indawo e-Qatar, okuyinto egqamisa izinkinga ngohlelo lwase-Afrika lokuhlungela iNdebe yoMhlaba.
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