Cape Verde Islands To Appeal World Cup Expulsion
The Lausanne-based tribunal on Thursday said it had accepted the protest, but it could not as yet give any dates for a decision or even a hearing.
Cape Verde beat Tunisia 2-0 away to finish top of African Group B, but forfeited the match after Fifa’s ruling that defender Fernando Varela was not eligible to play.
Tunisia were given a 3-0 win as a result which sent them to the top of the group and into the play-offs instead of Cape Verde.
The Tunisians have already played their first leg of the play-off, drawing 0-0 at home with Cameroon in september.
Varela received a 4 match ban after being sent off in an earlier Group B game against Equatorial Guinea, which Cape Verde lost 4-3.
That result itself was overturned and the game awarded to Cape Verde 3-0 after Fifa ruled that Equatorial Guinea’s Emilio Nsue, who scored a hat-trick, was not eligible to play.
Cape Verde argued that the red card and subsequent ban should not have counted as the match had been declared void.
They appealed to Fifa but football’s world governing body upheld its decision.
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