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Burkina Faso complaint to FIFA over Argentina friendly

The complaint Burkina Faso is preparing for FIFA has nothing to do with the score of that friendly against Argentina. It is about how the trip was arranged, and the details are rough. The Football Federation of Burkina Faso says the main squad's original flight ran 25 hours with multiple layovers. Then it got cancelled. The senior players looked at what was being proposed and refused to get on a plane under those terms. So rather than let the whole match fall apart, the U-23 national team was sent instead. Getting them to Buenos Aires was its own kind of mess, and they only made it there three and a half hours before the match kicked off. Where the federation points the blame is at the AFA, accusing them of trying to cut costs at every turn. The flights and the accommodations used are described as deplorable. And then the money part. According to the complaint, every bit of revenue from ticket sales stayed exclusively with the AFA. A friendly that turned into something else entirely.

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Burkina Faso complaint to FIFA over Argentina friendly

The complaint Burkina Faso is preparing for FIFA has nothing to do with the score of that friendly against Argentina. It is about how the trip was arranged, and the details are rough. The Football Federation of Burkina Faso says the main squad's original flight ran 25 hours with multiple layovers. Then it got cancelled. The senior players looked at what was being proposed and refused to get on a plane under those terms. So rather than let the whole match fall apart, the U-23 national team was sent instead. Getting them to Buenos Aires was its own kind of mess, and they only made it there three and a half hours before the match kicked off. Where the federation points the blame is at the AFA, accusing them of trying to cut costs at every turn. The flights and the accommodations used are described as deplorable. And then the money part. According to the complaint, every bit of revenue from ticket sales stayed exclusively with the AFA. A friendly that turned into something else entirely.

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