Top Nigerian official,
Paul Bassey, has been designated by football’s world governing body, FIFA, as match
commissioner for Tuesday’s 2018 World Cup qualifying cracker between the Red
Devils of Congo and Walya Antelopes of Ethiopia in Brazzaville.
The highly –respected
Bassey, who is also a CAF General Coordinator and instructor on Club Licensing,
will work with Sudanese referees and Egyptian Abdul Hamid Radwan, who will be
the referee assessor.
Congo’s Red Devils edged
the first leg played in Addis Ababa on Saturday 4-3, and the encounter at the Stade
Alphonse Massamba-Debat on Tuesday is expected to be explosive. And FIFA has
reposed confidence in the experienced Bassey.
El Fadil Mohamed Hussein
will be referee, with countrymen Waleed Ahmed Ali, Mohammed Abdallah Ibrahim
and Mutaz Abdelbasit Khairalla as assistant 1, assistant 2 and fourth official
respectively.
Nigeria referee,
Ferdinand Anietie Udoh, took charge of the Chad/Egypt World Cup qualifier in N’Djamena
on Saturday, which the Les Sao won 1-0.
Meanwhile, Gabon’s
Panthers became the first team the group phase of the African race after
penalty shoot –out defeat of Mozambique in Libreville on Saturday.
The 2012 Cup of Nations
co-hosts won 1-0 to tie the aggregate 1-1, and after extra time failed to
produce more goals, won the shoot –out 4-3 to eliminate the Mambas.
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