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2024 AFCON: North Africans dominate, Nigerian referees missing again

2024 AFCON: North Africans dominate, Nigerian referees missing again

CAF on Tuesday released a 32-man list of referees, 33 assistant referees and two VAR officials on its legit net scream material.

The chosen officials are expected to undergo a preparation direction ahead of the tournament from January 13 to February 11, 2024.

Algeria and Egypt like three centre referees every, whereas Morocco, Mauritania, and Mauritius like two every.

Others on the list consist of Gabon, Ghana, Benin, Congo, and Somalia, among others.

For the assistant referees, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire and South Africa like two names every.

Others are Comoros, Djibouti, Burkina Faso, and Sao Tome and Principe, among others.

Four VAR referees are chosen from Mauritius, South Africa, Morocco and Egypt, whereas seven technical instructors and bodily trainers are from Zimbabwe, Burundi, Côte D’Ivoire, Senegal, Morocco, and Djibouti.

Three VAR technicians and IT strengthen are chosen from Egypt with the Benin Republic and South Africa, producing one CAF referee committee member every.

Nigerian referees like no longer been chosen by CAF to officiate as centre referees in the final 5 AFCONs.

Samuel Pwadutakam used to be the most clear-gash legit chosen as an assistant referee at the 2021 AFCON in Cameroon.

Peter Edibe used to be chosen for the 2015 AFCON in Equatorial Guinea, whereas Abel Baba used to be in the combine in the 2017 AFCON in Gabon.

(NAN)

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