MALI coach Jean-Francois Joder has blasted the organisers of GLO-CAF 2007 awards to be held in Lome Togo on Friday February 1, 2008.

He vowed not to let striker Fredric Kanoute fly out to Lome for the awards. The Malian along with 2006 winner Didier Drogba of Cote d’ Ivoire and Michael Essien of Ghana are the three nominees for 2007 award.
The French coach was exclusively talking to Daily Monitor at the team’s Airport West Hotel in Accra on Monday.

“These people are very crazy. When everybody is concentrating on the tournament, they come up with crazy idea,” a fuming Joder remarked.

“The awards are two days before a crucial quarter final match. It involves not only travelling, but you have to sit for another four hours during the function. And if we happen to qualify for last eight after tomorrow’s (today) match, we need total concentration of all the players. If the team loses, I will be blamed.”

About Momo Sissoko, Joder stated that he gave him permission to travel to Turin to finalise his move to Italian side Juventus.

“We agreed with his agent that he travels to Turin and is due back today (yesterday). I will have to decide whether he is in the best frame of mind to play against Cote d’ Ivoire today,” he said.