Togo goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale fears he will never play football again and is planning to sue the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
Obilale is returning to France two months after the fatal machine-gun attack on the Togo team as they travelled to the African Nations Cup in Angola.
The 25-year-old Pontivy ’keeper has been in hospital in South Africa since he was airlifted there following the attack and has had five operations, but is now preparing to claim compensation from CAF.
“Before thinking about playing football again, I hope to find again the form of a human being, I think I can recover in six months.
“But will I take up football again? I don’t know. “I want to press charges. Notably against the CAF. They are savages. Their behaviour was inhuman. I want people to go before the court.”
Ivory Coast are still desperately searching for a coach in time for the World Cup finals after Guus Hiddink turned down repeated appeals from Didier Drogba to take on the job.
The Dutchman, who managed Elephants striker Drogba at Chelsea, is managing Russia at the moment but is set to take charge of Turkey when his deal expires.
Both nations failed to make it to the South African finals and Drogba implored Hiddink to take the reins for Ivory Coast’s Group G campaign against Brazil, North Korea and Portugal.
But the 63-year-old rejected the offer after talks with Ivory Coast football chiefs.
“Although I had a great conversation with the federal president and chief executive Jacques Anouma, I myself had already decided not to go,” Hiddink said. “It was a decision taken to avoid unnecessary confusion. Though I must admit that with the Ivory Coast it has not been easy.”
Super striker Edin Dzeko inspired Bundesliga champions Wolfsburg to a 4-0 win at Borussia Moenchengladbach which keeps their hopes of claiming a European spot alive.
Zvjezdan Misimovic and Bosnian Dzeko scored either side of half-time before Christian Gentner’s unstoppable shot from the edge of the box made it 3-0 on the hour. Dzeko rounded off the demolition with a fine solo run and his 14th goal of the season.
The win lifted Wolfsburg to eighth place on 37 points after 26 matches.
Borussia Dortmund leapfrogged Hamburg into fourth place after their 4-1 win at Bochum, while rock-bottom Hertha Berlin’s hopes of staying up all but evaporated when they lost 2-1 to relegation-threatened Nuremberg.
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