Ghana
Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi insists Egypt is unsafe
to host next month’s Brazil 2014 World Cup playoff return leg.
The Black Stars are expected to travel to Cairo to face the Pharaohs on 19 November after a comprehensive 6-1 win in the corresponding fixture.
The Ghana FA wrote to FIFA requesting the match be moved to a neutral ground and the world’s football governing has set an 28 October deadline to take a decision.
Last Sunday, Egyptian police clashed with hundreds of students staging an anti-military protest at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University.
Reports say the students had blocked the main road leading to the
campus and threw rocks as security forces also fired tear gas to
disperse them.
“My strongest conviction is that the match should be moved away from
Cairo because I think security is seriously compromised in Cairo and the
situation keeps escalating day in day out,” Nyantakyi told an
Accra-based Joy FM.
“We cannot risk the lives of our players, officials and supporters by
going to Cairo, I do not think that anylife lost is replaceable and so
in the interest of fairness and security it is better for FIFA to look
outside Egypt for a venue for the match.”
CREDIT:GHANASOCCERNET
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