3rd November, 2013
Taiwo Adelu
Foremost sports journalist and member, Nigeria Football Federation, NFF Technical and Development Committee, Etubom Paul Bassey has been saddled with two crucial assignments by both world football-governing body FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF), this month.
In what aptly underscores Bassey’s growing profile in the global game,
the world body has appointed the former Publisher of Today Sports as Match Commissioner for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between
Algeria and Burkina Faso taking place at the Mustapha Tchaker Stadium,
Blida on Tuesday, 19 November, 2013.
Ademola Olajire, Assistant Director (Media) of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, said in a press release on Sunday that Algeria/Burkina Faso clash is delicately poised after Burkina Faso’s Etalons, runners up at the last Africa Cup of Nation, won the first leg 3-2 in Ouagadougou on 12 October. The referee assessor for that game is Lim Kee Chong, the respected former FIFA referee from Mauritius.
Etubom Bassey has been appointed by CAF as the General Coordinator for
the return leg of the final of the 10th CAF Confederation Cup, between
host TP Mazembe of Democratic Republic of Congo and Club Sportive
Sfaxien of Tunisia, taking place at the Stade TP Mazembe in Lubumbashi
on 30 November, 2013.
Renowned South African referee Daniel Bennett will take charge of that
match, with Senegalese Badara Sene as referee assessor and Colonel
Sita Sangare from Burkina Faso as match commissioner.
The first leg will take place in Tunisia a week earlier.