LEOPARD SEEK FA ADVICE

MBABANE – Royal Leopard are not going to let AS Vita off the hook in their reported case of fielding a defaulter during their CAF Champions League games recently.

The Kinshasa-based ensemble is at the centre of another registration mess involving Francisco Obama Ondo, who scored the winner against Leopard in the first leg of the CAF Champions League at Somhlolo National Stadium last month.
The player is alleged to have also been registered as Bama Yangoua Franklin when playing for Akanangui from Equatorial Guinea in 2014 in the same tournament.

Yesterday, the police side MC Chairman, Mcolisi Dlamini, said they had resolved to pursue the matter by first seeking legal advice from the National Football Association of Swaziland (NFAS). The police side lost the game on 4-1 aggregate.

“We trust CAF to investigate and pronounce a proper sanction to the club. We are no doubt an interested party in the whole saga and we stand and hope to benefit from it at the end of the day, if there were any irregularities in the player’s registration. We have set an appointment with the FA CEO regarding the issue, because in everything that we have to do, they have to advise us,” he said.

AS Vita were disqualified from the same tournament just when they had beaten Mamelodi Sundowns and qualified for the group stages. The Pretoria-based side were reinstated by CAF after AS Vita were found guilty of having used Idrissa Traore in the game they won 2-1 on aggregate.
Dlamini said they were always looking forward to progressing to the next stage of the tournament if granted that opportunity. Their next opponents could be Gambian side, Potts Authority, who eliminated Sewe Sport of Ivory Coast 4-1 in two-legged first round match.

FA Marketing and Communications Officer Muzi Radebe said they can’t comment on the issue because the competition is run by CAF.
According to soka25east.com, AS Vita Club seem to have escaped the wrath of CAF under unclear circumstances after they registered Francisco Obama Ondo, whose real name is Franklin Bama Yangoua, a player who has been caught in a series of irregularities.

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