{"id":4336,"date":"2015-02-07T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T07:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2015-02-07T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T07:58:35","slug":"afcon-2015-caf-fines-e-guinea-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4336","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2015: CAF fines E\u2019 Guinea $100,000"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CAF president Issa Hayatou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Confederation of African Football on Friday hit Equatorial Guinea with a $100,000 fine for unrest in a Africa Cup of Nations semi-final in which 36 fans were injured, AFP<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n

But CAF said despite disturbances blamed on Equatorial Guinea fans in Thursday\u2019s semi-final defeat to Ghana, supporters would be allowed into the country\u2019s third-place play off against Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday.<\/p>\n

CAF meted out the fine to the Nations Cup hosts \u201cfor aggressive behaviour and being repeat offenders\u201d for crowd trouble, said a confederation statement.<\/p>\n

An order to play Saturday\u2019s third place playoff behind closed doors was suspended \u201cto promote a spirit of Fair-play and brotherhood during the AFCON2015\u201d.<\/p>\n

But CAF made it clear that if there was more unrest then it would \u201cautomatically impose the sanction of playing behind closed doors the Equatorial Guinean team\u2019s next official match\u201d.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s play-off is being held at the same 15,000-seater stadium in Malabo where Equatorial Guinea\u2019s supporters pelted Ghanaian fans with plastic bottles and chairs on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The game was halted for over half an hour with Ghana eventually winning 3-0 to set up a final on Sunday with Ivory Coast in Bata.<\/p>\n

As the missiles rained down, the 500 visiting Ghana fans poured onto the pitch and play was halted eight minutes from time as security officials battled to regain control.<\/p>\n

The Ghana Football Association described the scene as a \u201cwar zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local supporters became increasingly angry at an inept showing by the home team who struggled against a Ghana side ranked 81 places higher in the world.<\/p>\n

According to CAF, \u201call the injured were supported and attended to on site.<\/p>\n

\u201cA total of 14 were transferred to hospital units for further investigations with one case requiring close monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Confederation of African Football on Friday hit Equatorial Guinea with a $100,000 fine for unrest in a Africa Cup of Nations semi-final in which 36 fans were injured, AFP reports. But CAF said despite disturbances blamed on Equatorial Guinea fans in Thursday\u2019s semi-final defeat to Ghana, supporters would be allowed into the country\u2019s third-place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Issa-Haya-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-17W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4338,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions\/4338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}