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FIFA expels Equatorial Guinea from 2019 Women’s World Cup over document forgery

FIFA have expelled the women National team of Equatorial Guinea from the Women’s World Cup in 2019 for fielding ineligible players using forged documents.

Two players, Muriel Linda Mendoua Abessolo and Francisca Angue Ondo Asangono, were also given a ten match international ban for using forged and falsified documents to claim nationality, FIFA had said.

The National team was banned for fielding ten ineligible players. The Brazilian born players were fielded in qualifying for the 2016 Olympic tournaments in Rio.

“FIFA Disciplinary committee has sanctioned the Equatorial Guinea Football Association with expulsion from the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019.”

“A fine of CHF 100,000 for fielding ineligible players during the preliminary competition of the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Rio 2016,”

FIFA added in a statement.

FIFA had banned Equatorial Guinea’s Women team from the 2020 Olympics after they discovered that Camila Maria do Carmo Nobre de Oliveiria forged documents in the preliminary tournament in 2016.

She was discovered in possession of two passports with different birth dates and two birth certificates showing different parental information.

Upon further investigations, it was discovered that ten more ineligible players were fielded for the Rio 2016 Olympics qualifying games and two cases of forgery.

Equatorial Guinea has been implicated on several occasions for attempts to buy football glory by enticing players from foreign countries especially Brazil.

Recall that the Women’s National team were was also disqualified from the London 2012 Olympics for fielding an ineligible player after winning the competition in 2012.

They were subsequently disqualified from the 2016 Nations Cup in Cameroon and replaced by Mali after fielding Camila Maria do Carmo Nobre de Oliveiria in the Women’s Nations Cup qualifier match against Mali.

Earlier in July, a ban from the next two competitions was lifted in a CAF emergency meeting in Morrocco with the decision approved last month by the Executive Committee in Ghana.

Also, the Men’s National team was stripped off a victory in World Cup qualifier in 2013 by FIFA for fielding a lineup of foreign players.

FIFA rule only allows players who have lived in a country continuously for a long period of time or players whose parent or grandparent is a citizen of that Nation by birth.

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