FIFA Dismissed the Claim Burkina Faso

FIFA rejected a request from the Football Association of Burkina Faso. After missing the playoffs for the World Cup at the hands of Algeria, calling for the declassification of the victors and the inclusion of his selected for having resorted to a player who was allegedly suspended.

For Burkina Faso, Madjid Bougherra, Algerian captain, was not able to play the second leg for accumulation of yellow. According to FIFA, “the formal conditions for protest were not met, and that it must be done within the hour after the game." In addition, “there was no violation of the regulations."

These Teams met for one of the play offs Africans who gave one of the four places that the continent will have in Brazil 2014. The overall result was 3-3, but the Algerians classified by the away goal.

" We are calm and unconcerned, because we know that we have already qualified for the 2014 World Cup, and Bougherra had no yellow card in the first leg," said the president of the Algerian federation, Mohamed Raouraoua told AFP.http:// www.fifa14mart.com