From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2008 - 12:04:58 EDT
FIFA throw Ethiopia out of 2010 World Cup15:46 BST, Fri 12 Sep 2008
By Mark Ledsom
ZURICH, Sept 12 (Reuters) - World soccer's governing body FIFA has thrown
Ethiopia out of the World Cup following a long-running row over the
leadership of the country's football federation.
FIFA announced on Friday that Ethiopia had been removed from the World Cup's
qualifying competition by the tournament's organising committee after
refusing to honour an agreement reached with FIFA in February.
Before Friday's decision, Ethiopia had been third in their four-team
qualifying group behind Rwanda and Morocco and ahead of Mauritania.
FIFA said the group table would now be amended with all the matches played
by Ethiopia wiped from the standings.
Ethiopia were suspended from international competition in July after failing
to reinstate the federation leaders officially recognised by FIFA.
The suspension led to the cancellation of the country's scheduled World Cup
qualifier against Morocco five days ago.
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