The indispensable Jonathan Pitroipa .

Pitroipa the key player in Burkina Faso.

The Rennes striker will play the final against Nigeria, Sunday (19h), since the second yellow card he had been given by mistake in the semifinals was withdrawn. Good news for Burkina Faso, which is one of the best.

  It Saving Private Pitroipa! It was a little national cause in recent days in Burkina Faso. Supports the Rennais 26 years have multiplied. "My former teammate Vincent Kompany in Hamburg even made ​​a tweet to support me," welcomed the Burkinabe. "At the time I fell but now I laugh ..." he breathed into the team. Happy weekend. The Disciplinary Committee of the African Confederation (CAF) has canceled Friday's red card. It may therefore eventually play the final on Sunday in Johannesburg against Nigeria. The Tunisian referee M.Slim Jdidi - since suspended by CAF-recognized erred in imposing a second yellow card Pitroipa for simulation in the penalty area at the end of extra time against Ghana on Wednesday ( 1-1 aet, 3-2 pens).

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As Abou Zeid in 1986 :

A confession which allowed the Disciplinary Committee to cancel the red card and that discredits even more maligned arbitration during this CAN. "Everyone realized that the arbitrator did not run well," ruled the scathing Federal President Issa Hayatou ... Reinstate a player: a rare decision in an international competition. We must go back to 1986 to find evidence of such a coaster when Taher Abou Zeid Egyptian had been reinstated to compete in the final after a refereeing error.

"By taking the red card, I was disappointed because it was like a dream that I was not able to achieve, 'says the decisive Rennais in the CAN 2013. Pitroipa happy. As well as the Lorient Alain Traoré, who had to leave the selection of injury, four times named Rennais man of the match was one of the major elements of the Stallions with two goals and three assists and was to origin of almost all the goals of his selection.

Little is customary, he scored the head, the winning goal against Togo Adebayor in the quarterfinals (1-0 aet) in overtime in ^the 105th minute, Burkina Faso to qualify the first half final since 1998. Led by the Belgian coach Paul Put, and its executives "French" (Alain Traoré, Pitroipa, Kabore, Bakary Kone ...), the Burkinabé never cease to surprise them which were pitifully eliminated in the latest edition without no victory in the group stage.

 

Return to France :

Not beyond reproach, Pitroipa, the frail and twirling striker (60 kg 1.76 m), which often has a bad habit of getting bogged down in unnecessary dribbling, and search individual achievement too, has silenced the tanks in South Africa. His return to France he did not ultimately been detrimental. In preparation for the national team, he has indeed left its partners to help the club Rennes against Montpellier in the semifinals of the League Cup. During this match, Burkina Faso was originally the second goal (2-0) which has protected the Rennais. Arrived in the summer of 2011, after seven years in Britain, Germany, Freiburg four years and three years in Hamburg, Pitroipa became an undisputed holder in Red and Black, and will be well on Sunday in the history of Burkina Faso .