The Confederation of African Football has announced the indefinite postponement of the finals of the Total CAF Confederation Cup and Total CAF Champions League 2019/20 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Confederation of African Football has announced the indefinite postponement of the Champions League and Confederation Cup semi-final matches.
Following the COVID-19 Pandemic, reigning champions Morocco have cancelled their CHAN 2020 camp and have withdrawn from the competition.
The Confederation of African Football says it will maintain the schedule of all competitions despite the outbreak of coronavirus as the World Health Organisation is yet to declare any African country as a high risk.
A statement on the website of the continental football governing body on Friday said Cameroon, Morocco and Tunisia bidded to host the CAF Champions League 2019/2020.
The Confederation of African Football has banned Zimbabwe from hosting international matches because the country’s stadiums no longer meet the standards required by the continent’s governing soccer body or those of FIFA, the game’s international administrator.
The Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football has dismissed allegations against its leadership as contained in a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, describing them as unfounded.
The Media Officer of the club, Norbert Okoli, made the appeal in a statement issued on Saturday in Enugu.
The Confederation of African Football has appointed Guinean official Bangaly Konate as referee for the match for Tuesday’s Under 23 AFCON qualifier against Sudan.
The draw will be held at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.
Hasan Bility, who is from Liberia and a CAF executive committee member for last two years, said he will ask the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport to declare invalid the agreement by which FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura will be sent on a secondment to overhaul the African governing body.
Amaju Pinnick, the President of Nigeria Football Federation, has been removed from his position as First Vice-President of the Confederation of African Football.
Pinnick, who has served in the position since July 2018, has now been replaced by South Africa’s Danny Jordaan
FIFA last month took the unprecedented move of announcing it would jointly administer African football with CAF and would send its Senegalese Secretary-General, Fatma Samoura, on a ninth-month secondment to overhaul the African body.
The finals of Africa’s two international club competitions will each be played in one single match in future rather than over two legs as at present, an official said on Wednesday.
It is the first meeting of CAF’s 54-member associations since allegations of fraud and sexual harassment were levelled against CAF president Ahmad Ahmad in April.
Separately, an investigation by the BBC can reveal that Mr Ahmad received two sets of expenses, claiming to be in two different countries, for the same nine-day period during the 2018 World Cup.
In a statement issued on Thursday, CAF stated that the rankings of teams would serve as one of the key elements to determine the fate of every country.
The National Chairperson, Nigeria Eagles Supporters Club, Bunmi Ogunfunwa, on Saturday said that the Super Eagles were missing the supporters club at the ongoing African Cup of Nations in Egypt due to visa hitch.
Ighalo, who came in as a substitute for Paul Onuachu in the 73rd minute, netted the decisive strike four minutes later.