FIFA get shirty with Cameroon

Cameroon’s prospects of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany were dealt a massive blow today when FIFA announced that they would be docked six points from their qualification tally as punishment for wearing one-piece kits during the African Nations Cup.

A FIFA statement said that the Cameroon kit represented a “serious infringement of the Laws of the Game”.

World football’s governing body were caught by surprise in January when Cameroon began their African Nations Cup campaign wearing the unusual kit, and they were ordered to revert to normal attire from the quarter-finals onwards.

Cameroon failed to do so, and FIFA have now acted.

As well as the six-point deduction, the Cameroon Football Association were also fined €128,000 by FIFA.