Equatorial Guinea have been kicked out of the 2020 women's Olympic football tournament after a player was found to have used two passports with conflicting details, FIFA said on Monday.
The FIFA logo is seen at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland March 18, 2016. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich
ZURICH: Equatorial Guinea have been kicked out of the 2020
women's Olympic football tournament after a player was found to have
used two passports with conflicting details, FIFA said on Monday.
FIFA's disciplinary committee held the Equatoguinean FA
(Feguifut) liable for the use of a "forged or falsified" passport during
last year's qualifying tournament for the Rio Olympics.
Football's world governing body said it had found evidence
of the use of two passports with different dates of birth for Camila
Maria do Carmo Nobre de Oliveira, who took part in several qualifying
matches.
"Two birth certificates containing divergent information
regarding the player’s parental affiliation were also provided," FIFA
said.
The player was banned for the next 10 international matches
for which she would be eligible, fined 2,000 Swiss francs (US$2,100),
warned and reprimanded. Feguifut was fined 40,000 Swiss francs.
"Further investigations related to the eligibility of several other players are currently ongoing," said FIFA.
Equatorial Guinea did not qualify for the women's football
tournament after losing to South Africa in the final round, having
previously beaten Congo and Nigeria two-legged matches.
The West African nation's men's team were kicked out of the
2015 African Nations Cup for fielding a Cameroon-born player who was not
eligible to represent them in qualifying matches.
Equatorial Guinea were later given a place in the tournament when they agreed to step in as hosts after Morocco withdrew.
(Writing by Brian Homewood, editing by Ed Osmond)
- Reuters
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