Sports activities News of Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Supply: Soccer Ghana
2021-03-09
The tournament was to be held in Morocco
Footballghana.com can report that the 2021 Full CAF U-17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) event has been canceled.
The youth championship was scheduled to begin in the host nation, Morocco from March 13 to 31 in accordance to an earlier confirmation from the continent’s football governing body.
With a lot less than a week to the begin of the event, CAF at an Unexpected emergency Committee conference has taken the choice to terminate the tournament.
Even though the Committee was impressed with the U-20 AFCON lately concluded in Mauritania, they imagine canceling the U-17 AFCON is the finest choice.
The determination will come on the back again of calls from quite a few who thought it was not critical to have the tournament when FIFA had currently cancelled the U-17 Entire world Cup for this yr.
Meanwhile, CAF prepares for the resumption of the qualifying matches for the 2022 AFCON tournament afterwards this month.
The Black Stars of Ghana will be envisioned to play towards South Africa as nicely as São Tomé and Principe.
