Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Referee Kotey for Coton Sport –JSK game

Accra, April 4, GNA – Ghanaian match officials will be at the centre
stage of this weekend's CAF Champions league 1/8th stage first leg
encounter between Coton Sport Garoua of Cameroon and Jeunesse Sportif
Kabylie.Information gathered by the GNA Sports from the secretariat of
the continent's soccer controlling body, Confederation of African
Football (CAF) indicates that FIFA referee Alex Neequaye Kotey will
steer the affairs from the middle.
He will be assisted on the lines by Haruna Ayuba and George
Saijah.Cameroonian referee Gambo Abdoulaye will be the fourth referee
with Togolese Komlan Assogbavi as the Match Commissioner.This will be
the second time in a fortnight that the trio will be handling a major
assignment after the GHANA 2008 qualifier between Gambia and Guinea.
Prior to that, the trio had been at the helm during the CAF
Champions league 1/16th qualifier between Congolese side, Etoile du
Congo and St George of Ethiopia in Brazzaville last February.In a
related development, former Chairman of the Ghana Football Association
(GFA), Lepowura Alhaji Mohammed Nurudeen Jawula has been appointed the
Match Commissioner for the CAF Champions league tie between Nasarawa
United of Nigeria and Al Hilal of Sudan, scheduled for Lafia, Nigeria.

04 April 07