The Government Committee of the Confederation of African Soccer (CAF) met in Kigali, Rwanda on Saturday, Might 15. Choices have been made on the group of main occasions on the continent. The postponement of the qualifiers within the Africa zone for the World Cup 2022 has been confirmed: the matches will happen at the top of 2021 and the start of 2022.
The assembly held in Kigali on Saturday attracted many individuals. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, and Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju, Minister of Sports activities of Rwanda, welcomed Gianni Infantino, President of Fifa, and Patrice Motsepe, the brand new president of CAF, for a summit of the CAF Government Committee (COMEX). On this event, Paul Kagame made some extent of “emphasizing the report on soccer and improvement in Africa”, CAF’s press launch signifies.
WC 2022: qualifiers in September, October and November 2021, then in March 2022
A number of matters had been mentioned throughout this assembly in Kigali. Particularly, it was a matter of CAF zone qual for the World Cup scheduled for Qatar from 21 November to 18 December 2022. As RFI had introduced In early Might, the group stage of the African qualifiers is not going to happen in June 2021. COMEX confirmed this postponement.
The conferences will lastly be held “underneath the worldwide home windows in September, October and November 2021, as nicely as March 2022”, CAF proclaims. In March 2022, the playoffs will almost definitely happen at the top of which we are going to know the 5 African international locations that may compete within the 2022 World Cup.
The closing of the Champions League in Morocco, the one within the Confederation Cup in Benin
COMEX additionally authorized the international locations that may host the subsequent main occasion on the continent. We all know was the closing in CAF Champions League 2020-2021, which since final yr is just performed in a single recreation. After Egypt in November final yr, the subsequent closing, scheduled for July 17, 2021, will happen in Morocco.
The closing i Confederation Cup 2020-2021, which can be performed in a single match since final yr (it happened in Morocco), will happen in Benin on July 10, 2021.
Egypt will host the closing of the CAF Girls’s Champions League 2021. The nation of the Pharaohs will even be chargeable for organizing the CAN for 20 years in 2023. Through the seventeenth CAN 2023, it’ll happen in Algeria. Lastly, 2022 seaside soccer CAN will happen in Mozambique.
A pan-African championship between colleges was created, investments for the improvement of soccer and referees are anticipated
Along with these selections, COMEX introduced that the Motsepe Basis had donated $ 10 million to CAF. This sum should fund the CAF-Fifa Inter-school Pan-African Championship, which has seen its integration into CAF competitions authorized by the committee.
The committee additionally introduced a “fundraising plan” to enhance soccer infrastructure in Africa. Estimated value: one billion {dollars}. This challenge should now be “scrutinized”. One other challenge talked about: a coaching program for CAF judges, with a price range of a million {dollars} per yr. COMEX desires to “strengthen the professionalisation of arbitration in Africa”.
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– CAF Media (@CAF_Media) Might 15, 2021.
