Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been hit with a fine following an incident while on international duty with Gabon.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been handed a $10,000 fine after his comments were deemed to have portrayed a wrong image.
The Gunners captain took to Twitter to highlight his team’s predicament after they were held in an airport in Gambia for more than five hours ahead of an African Nations Cup qualifier.
Aubameyang posted pictures of players sleeping on the airport floor and wrote: “Nice job CAF, it’s as if we were back in the 1990s.
He later added: “This will not demotivate us but people need to know and CAF need to take responsibility. [It is] 2020 and we want Africa to grow but this is not how we will get there.”
However, the continent’s governing body, the Confederation of African Football have not taken those comments likely and claim Aubameyang put a dent on the image of African football.
CAF’s disciplinary committee also fined Gambia’s FA $100,000, half of which was suspended for 24 months.
“The Gambian federation did not comply to the loyalty, integrity and sportsmanship values and rules of fair play concerning the reception of the Gabonese delegation,” CAF said in a statement.
Gabon arrived shortly before midnight and were allowed to go their hotel about five hours later. Aubameyang featured in that game and Gabon lost 2-1 to Gambia later in the day.
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