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‘God saved me, I almost died’ – Tunisia-Mali referee recalls ordeal 

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‘God saved me, I almost died’ – Tunisia-Mali referee recalls ordeal 

Janny Sikazwe, the referee at the centre of controversy in the AFCON 2021 match between Tunisia and Mali has said that he almost lost his life after reportedly suffering heatstroke during the game.

Janny Sikazwe’s AFCON 2021 officiating had come to an end and upon his return to Zambia, he spoke to journalists and part of the interview sees him saying he was relieved to have gone back home alive.

“I have seen people going for duties outside the country and come back in a casket. I was very close to coming back like that. I was lucky I didn’t go into a coma. It would have been a very different story,” he said.

Sikazwe said doctors told him he nearly went into a coma due to the heat, adding that he believed God told him to end the match early.

“The doctors told me my body was not cooling down. It would have been just a little time before [I would have gone] into a coma, and that would have been the end,” he said.

“I think God told me to end the match. He saved me.”

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“The weather was so hot, and the humidity was about 85%. After the warm-up, I felt the [conditions] were something else. We were trying to drink water but you could not feel the water quenching you, nothing,” he said.

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“But we [match officials] believe we are soldiers and we go and fight. Everything I was putting on was hot. Even the communication equipment, I wanted to throw it away. It was so hot.”

Sikazwe was criticised for not informing his assistants about his condition and instead ending the match early twice.

“I started getting confused. I could not hear anybody. I reached the point where I could start hearing some noise and I thought someone was communicating with me and people were telling me ‘no you ended the match’. It was a very strange situation.

“I was going through my head to find who told me to end the match. Maybe I was talking to myself, I don’t know. That is how bad the situation was.”

Background 

Referee Sikazwe surprisingly blew the final whistle in the 85th minute of the game with Mali ahead 1-0, which caused some confusion among the players and the technical teams of both sides.

After he was corrected on his call and restarted the match, the Zambian referee then harshly sent off Malian forward, El Bilal Toure despite being asked by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) to review the decision, Sikazwe upheld his earlier call.

The referee then bafflingly blew his whistle before the 90th-minute mark once again causing a very painstaken Tunisian bench to run unto the field confronting the official.

Sikazwe then had to be escorted off the field by security personnel as the Tunisian players and technical staff continued to run after him.

It was a surprising decision from the referee to end the match without any stoppage time, as the second half had seen nine substitutions, a cooling break and two relatively lengthy VAR checks.

After all the drama on the field, a decision was then taken for the match to resume for five more minutes, with the officials and the Malian team returning to the pitch.

However, the Tunisians refused to play and after waiting for a while, the referee blew for full-time for the third time in the match.

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