18-06-2026 14:15 via sports.yahoo.com

Ivory Coast star becomes second World Cup player denied entry to Canada

Ivory Coast’s Elye Wahi has been denied entry into Canada for his country’s next World Cup match – a day after it was revealed that the 23-year-old had been arrested over match-fixing offences. The Ivorian forward Wahi is the subject of an “active investigation” from the French police to establish whether he deliberately earned a yellow card while playing for Nice against Metz in Ligue 1 on 17 May.A report in The Athletic detailed that Wahi, who started Ivory Coast&
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