Burkinabe striker Aristide Bance has revealed that majority of African players are not treated well in North Africa.
The Al Masry forward emphasized that some Black African players are subjected to inhumane treatment in the Maghreb and it is about time CAF looks at the issue.
“CAF president wanted to know why African teams like Senegal, Tunisia, Egypt did not go far in this World Cup. I would like to tell him to give a look at African football a little bit. I think there is injustice,” Bancé said in a video posted on his Facebook page.
“Africans who are playing in our continent are treated as slaves. The CAF president must look at this issue because I think too much is too much.”
“A lot of our black brothers who are suffering in countries like Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt. I have a friend who just wrote to me earlier and we play in the same club, he is there in Egypt. They confiscated his passport and falsified a document to say that he received all his due payments and the Egyptian FA there support the club. The case is very serious. We Africans with dark skin, we are not respected.”
Bance further indicated that football is like slavery in Egypt as many of the foreigners are not given resident permit but a four months visa which they have to leave the country and return when it expire
“Football is not slavery but over there, there is slavery in Egypt. It has to stop, I was a victim of that, I am talking about it and nothing will fear me. Foreign players normally have the right to a residence permit. But there [in Egypt] most foreigners do not have the residence card. They are given a visa for three to four months. When the visa expires, you have to leave the country. And when you do not leave every day there is a penalty.”
“There are a lot of players out there who have to pay those penalties but have no money. The clubs abandon them in the street.”
“That’s why Egypt failed in the World Cup, because you are bad in your country. As long as you continue to be bad, your national team will be similar,” he concluded.
Egypt have several Ghanaian players with the more established one who is making it big there being John Antwi of Makasa.
