Kenya Faces World Cup Ban

Former coach Adel Amrouche wrote to Fifa yesterday to rule out any extension for Kenya to pay him delayed funds, so leaving the country on the verge of 2022 World Cup elimination.
Kenya’s football federation (FKF) has told Tidesports source it does not have funds to meet the payment deadline of today, 24 April, with Amrouche owed just over a million dollars.
The FKF were instructed to pay these funds by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) last October.
They have been told by world football’s governing body that if they do not make this payment, the result will be exclusion from the World Cup qualifying campaign.
In 2015, Zimbabwe were kicked out of the 2018 World Cup by Fifa after failing to pay a former coach his dues
Aside from paying the funds, the sole way to avoid this was to persuade Amrouche to agree to an extension of the deadline.
Yesterday, the Belgian told our source he has informed FIFA of his decision to reject this possibility.
“Agreement on extension would lead to the closure of the disciplinary proceedings without payment being guaranteed,” he explained.
The issue stems from the CAS ruling that Amrouche was wrongfully dismissed back in 2014 when sacked 18 months into a five-year tenure, following a 1-0 aggregate loss to Lesotho in a 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.
Amrouche, who now coaches Botswana, initiated legal action that culminated in the million-dollar award last October, to be paid by Today.
But with that deadline approaching, the FKF asked Fifa for an extension, only to be told “they cannot do much unless the creditor (Adel Amrouche) accepts”.