The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Tuesday announced the postponement of the 2024 African Nations Championship to August 2025.
Good progress has been made in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda with the construction and upgrading of stadiums, training fields, hotels, hospitals and other infrastructure and facilities for the hosting of a successful competition.
However the CAF Technical and Infrastructure experts some of whom have been based in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, have advised CAF that more time is required to ensure that the infrastructure and facilities, are at the levels, necessary for hosting a successful tournament.
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The President of CAF Dr Patrice Motsepe said: “I would like to express my deep gratitude to President William Ruto of Kenya, President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda for their leadership, commitment and the good progress that has been made in building and upgrading the stadiums, training fields, hotels, hospitals and other infrastructure and facilities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda for hosting a successful CHAN 2024.
“I am impressed with the ongoing construction and renovations of the football infrastructure and facilities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. I am confident that the stadiums, training fields, hotels, hospitals and other infrastructure and facilities will be at the requisite CAF standards for hosting, in August 2025, a very successful tournament.”
CAF will be conducting the draw for the biennial competition in Nairobi, on Wednesday.
The exact date in August 2025 of the commencement of the competition will be announced by CAF in due course.
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This is the height of embarrassment and it’squiteunfortunate.Most nations have put in so much in preparation toward the competition.And we the fans have been waiting in anticipation to watch our home eagles display their class. I am very sure by August most of the guys in this CHAN team would have moved to clubs abroad and others would have dropped form.
No more CHAN adventure for Chelle. I had hoped he would use the Home Eagles as a dress rehearsal for the main job.
Now he should be 100% focused on the upcoming world cup qualifiers. Look home and abroad at in-form players and select the best. And instead of working with Eguavoen, why not let Ogunmodede and Ilechukwu understudy Chelle? Why Eguavoen again? Is his job as the Technical Director not enough to keep him occupied? Besides, having him work with Chelle is strange indeed. He is Chelle’s boss. How can he be working under Chelle? Conflict of interest out the wazoo.
Let Ogunmodede and Ilechukwu work under Chelle, along with the assistants he brought from his former Algerian club. That should be enough.
Na the “technical director” position cause this one. In NFF opinion, Eguavoen will help Chelle compile list of players to visit. Eguavoen who will reel out the players he “has worked with” to Chelle.
Anyway, e kuku good say Chelle get 3 “assistants” he’s comfortable with. After Eguavoen who should have quietly reverted to his position suggests DEADWEIGHTS, the coach’s assistants will urge him to remove them.
NFF never serious yet to improve our coaches. WC qualifiers dey on their mind because legacies are at stake.
Eguavoen supervising 2 WC qualifiers failure as technical director will effectively retire him from Nigeria football, so the die is cast. What of Gusau? First in pinnicks NFF for Qatar failure and now this one as president?
Chelle will have the “full autonomy” like LGAs lol