Malawi national coach, Tom Saintfiet who was
called a “white dude” by Super Eagles chief
coach, Stephen Keshi has finally reported the
matter to the world football governing body
(FIFA).
A response to a mail sent by SportingLife from
the organization’s media department on
Tuesday acknowledged receipt of the report.
The date it was received was not stated in the
mail.
“We can confirm that we have received a
complaint on the said matter,” the mail read.
FIFA however declined to offer further
comments until the matter is finally thrashed.
“But please understand that we cannot
comment any further at this stage,” FIFA said.
Although the matter is being
investigated, FIFA may act on it owing to its
policy of fairness and fairplay.
SportingLife gathered from an official of the
Nigeria Football Federation that they were
awaiting FIFA’s reaction.
“I am very sure that FIFA just got the report
since it was last week that the Malawian coach
threatened to report Keshi. FIFA will certainly
get back to us as the football federation. But
like Keshi had said, he meant no harm when he
called Saintfiet a “white dude”. As far as he was
concerned, it was not a racist attack,” said the
official.
Report on BBC Sports says the Africa Cup of
Nations winner disagreed with Saintfied over
his request that next week’s World Cup
qualifier between both countries be moved
from Calabar to another venue owing to
security reasons.
Keshi followed up his reaction on UK-based
African TV show, Vox Africa’s Sports360, by
saying: -I think the coach of Malawi is crazy.
“If he wants to talk to FIFA, he should go back
to Belgium. He is not an African person, he is
a white dude, he should go back to Belgium, ‘’
Keshi said.
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