A 45-minute rainstorm swept through the stadium and environs just before kick-off, necessitating a delay that actually led to a meeting in which the Match Commissioner, Soudatou Djallo-Kalkaba from Cameroon, had ruled that the match would be played on Sunday
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The Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions confirmed in September that all teams will be allocated to (eight-team) pots 1 to 4 based on sporting principles
Tunisia last featured in the World Cup in 2006 and Morocco in 1998
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the match against Morocco was a second round first leg fixture in the 2018 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup qualifiers
On arriving in Casablanca aboard a Royal Air Maroc flight from Lagos, the Falconets’ delegation will be flown to Sale, a city some 100km from Rabat, where they will battle the Moroccan U20 girls on Sunday evening.
According to CAF statement, the three countries submitted their applications to the General Secretariat of the Confederation Africaine de Football for the organisation of the 2018 Total African Nations Championship before the deadline date
Ayuba Wabba, NLC President said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the Organisation of Trade Unions of West Africa Workshop held in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation.
These countries have shown their interest through a competitive overture made available to the African Union Commission, which is saddled with the role of deciding on the hosting right in partnership with the International Committee of AFRIMA.
The Director of CDD, Idayat Hassan, made the call on Thursday at the High-Level Policy Dialogue on Morocco’s application to the ECOWAS.
Both teams will slug it out at the National Football Centre, Rabat starting from 4pm on Wednesday, and again clash at the same venue on Thursday from mid-day.
The symposium that took place on Tuesday and Wednesday at the International Conference Centre in Skhirat, outside Rabat crystallized a plethora of ideas for the African game going forward, including a 24-nation Africa Cup of Nations finals, expansion of the youth competitions from the current eight-team finals, moving the AFCON to June/July and a more inclusive CAF alive to, and abreast with, the dictates of new realities.
Speaking at a two-day symposium on African football, with the theme: “African Football: Our Vision,” which ended in Rabat, Morocco on Wednesday, Infantino said bringing age cheating to barest minimum is the first step in fostering the growth in football.
Oladapo, who was in Agadir, Morocco when Quadri beat Assar 4-3 in the men’s singles final, admitted that the country is yet to realise that players are not coming through due to lack of quality coaching.
“I know that the competition in Agadir, Morocco would be tough with a lot of worthy competitors. I am re-checking all my weaknesses
Egypt, as the defending champions, will be relying on their stars, Omar Assar and Dina Meshref, who are hoping to hold on to the title they won at Yaounde 2015 in Cameroon.
According to him, this issue is the biggest challenge to Nigeria’s Foreign Policy since the civil war
King Mohammed VI was not at the summit because Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been invited
Mohammed, who stated this in his address to the 28th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, also pledged to avail his country’s vast mineral resources to the benefit of the continent
The defeat will be hard to swallow for Morocco, who spurned several goal-scoring chances in an exciting second half, which stood in stark contrast to a dour first period
In 1986, a superb free kick from Egypt great Taher Abou-Zeid gave them a 1-0 semi-final win over Morocco in the Nations Cup on home soil