The Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) has appointed Egypt’s Mohamed Maarouf Eid Mansour to officiate Rivers United’s Confederation Cup playoff round first leg tie against El Nasr Benghazi of Libya.
The game is billed for the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Eid Mansour, 35, will be assisted by compatriots, Mohamed Abouzid Halhal (Assistant I), Ahmed Hossam Eldin (Assistant II) and Mohamed Adel Elsaid Hussien (Fourth referee).
Prince Kai Saquee from Sierra Leone will serve as Match Commissioner, Mendy John John Frank from Gambia as Referee assessor while Ozi Salami Abdulrahim works as COVID-19 Officer.
This is the first time Rivers United and El Nasr Benghazi will clash at club level.
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The match will be played on Wednesday, November 2 and Kick-off is scheduled for 2pm.
Nigeria Professional Football League champions Rivers United lost to Wydad Casablanca in the CAF Champions League playoff.
After securing a 2-1 win in the first leg, Rivers United were hammered 6-0 in the reverse fixture in Morocco.
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how is this CAF of a Federation thinking?.. Well we all know the vendetta south Africans have against Nigeria maybe this is Patriece Motsepe Way of taking out his hate towards Nigeria
Bro even the assistants are North Africans and then match Commissioner is SL….. So the only official who is not North AFRICAN is basically a stooge lol…
It is becoming glaringly obvious that there is a problem in African football Organisation and FIFA is aware of it but, still not willing to do anything about it.
It was a Moroccan referee who gifted you a sham penalty against Ghana. Now you guys don’t like north Africans officiating your matches.
The Morrocan ref handled the first leg. The second leg was a Malian ref. Check your fact, or maybe you dey talk different match. African football in general is not fair, I don’t know why people complain so much. Everybody will do mischief for their home matches
Bro, either Malian or Moroccan official, dem all be African referees. Like you said every team will do mischief for their home games.