Vita Club of Democratic Republic of Congo will receive Aduana stars from Ghana, at the Martyrs Stadium of Kinshasa, this Sunday, July 29, 2018.
This match will the second for Kenechi Yatsuhashi since he took over as Aduana Stars coach from Yusif Abubakari.
What is different this time around compared to the other Confederation matches is that the assistant referees and the center referee do not come from the same country.
Eritrean Tesfagiorghis O’Michael and Sudanese Mohammed Ibrahim are the Assistants one and two respectively.
The center referee , Souleiman Ahmed Djama, is from Djibouti. Djama has been an international referee since 2015 and this game will be his 9th international match officiated.
CAF is taking officiating serious than ever following Tiger Eye Pi corruption investigation that revealed some top African referees taking bribes before games as the continental football body was left with no option than to sanction those implicated referees with some receiving as much as 10-year bans.