Bafana Bafana and SAFA receive SHOCKING letter from FIFA: ‘You did not pay on time!’

Bafana Bafana and SAFA received a SHOCKING letter from FIFA this week. After weeks of silence the drama has reached boiling point!

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The letter from FIFA to SAFA stated that South Africa did not pay the protest fee on time.

FIFA stated that the fee should have been paid much sooner according to TimesLive.

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FIFA’S LETTER TO SAFA AND BAFANA BAFANA

“The Ghana Football Association argued that no written protest was submitted to the match commissioner, the protest was not lodged in a timely manner and no protest fee had been paid.”

“Proof of payment provided by Safa” indicated “the protest fee appeared to have been paid on November 19,” confirmed FIFA’s letter.

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This was five days after the match. It was due much sooner according to FIFA.

“The protest fee must be paid ‘when the protest is lodged’ (art. 46 (3) FDC), in other words ‘within 24 hours of the end of the match in question’ (art. 46 (1) FDC)’,” the letter stated.

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“In view of the foregoing, the committee pointed out that, as the protest fee had not been paid in a timely manner, the third (cumulative) procedural requirement for a protest to be admissible was also not met,”

The letter states that SAFA only paid the fee five days after lodging a protest which caused their case to be inadmissible.

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