The referee of the match between Uganda and Tanzania calculated that the match referee counted more than half an hour of added time, which sparked widespread controversy among the followers of African football.
The match between Uganda and Tanzania, which brought together the two teams, at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, in the fourth round of the group stage of the African Cup of Nations qualifiers, ended with the Ugandan team winning 1-0.
He scored the goal of the match for Uganda "Rogers died" In the fatal minutes of the match, and it was in the 91st minute, after the match referee counted 36 minutes of wasted time.
The referee’s calculation of the match for 36 minutes sparked widespread controversy in the African sports community, which made everyone wonder about the reasons for calculating stoppage time.
And it turned out that the reason for calculating the referee of the match, Ibrahim Al-Khalil Traore from Cote d’Ivoire, came because of the power outage in the match stadium for a long time, which made him calculate half an hour of lost allowance to compensate for the time that the power outage caused him to waste.
