Monday, August 18, 2014

Lesotho forfeit's due to Ebola Fear



Lesotho soccer team forfeits a game against Nigeria in the Under-20 Fifa tournament due to the Ebola Virus. The Lesotho government put a ban for traveling to places with the Ebola Virus the team was unable to travel to the game and had to forfeit causing them to be disqualified from the finals in Senegal.

The Lesotho government is trying to fight the forfeit saying that they had reason to not want to travel to a place that has three known deaths in Nigeria and thousands more in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia.

Source: BBC Sports
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28805714

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