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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced that it will open an investigation to establish the extent to which political statements and events at the opening ceremony of the African Nations Championship for local players (CHAN) in Algeria violate the statutes and regulations of CAF and FIFA. In a statement published Sunday on its […]
The U23 national soccer team is, Friday morning, at the Rabat-Salé airport waiting for the official authorization to take off to Constantine to take part in the African Nations Championship (CHAN), which will be held from January 13 to February 4, 2023. “We are at the airport and we are still waiting for the official […]
The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has indicated that Guinea will no longer host the 35th African Cup of Nations, CAF2025. CAF Chief Patrice Motsepe made the announcement following a meeting with incumbent colonel Mamadi Doumbouya. “For the CAN 2025, the decision was made not to continue with Guinea because the infrastructure, despite the great […]
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera have adopted Morocco’s undivided map, including its Sahara territory, dealing a hard blow to the Algerian regime and its polisario puppet. The move comes after the Arab League’s recent decision to adopt a unified map of the Arab world, showing undivided Morocco including […]
Morocco has won a diplomatic battle against Algeria at the Confederation of African Football and shattered its dream to see the so-called “SADR” admitted to the African football governing body, writes Jeune Afrique Monday. The CAF 43rd General Assembly convened in Rabat on March 12 actually approved an amendment to the confederation’s statutes stipulating that […]
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) held a General Assembly (GA) on 11 December 2020 marked by the absence of its President Ahmad, suspended for 5 years by FIFA, and the appointment of its former boss, Issa Hayatou, to the honorary position of “honorary president” of the institution. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) closed […]
While he was vying for another term at the head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), the current president Ahmad Ahmad was suspended for five years by the international football governing body FIFA. The decision was announced this Monday after FIFA’s adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee found CAF President guilty of abusing […]
Morocco’s health ministry Tuesday ordered Casablanca-based popular football club Raja to go into self-isolation ahead of its away Confederation of African Football CAF Champions League tie in Egypt against Cairo-based Zamalek after the side reported nine cases of coronavirus. The ministry, Le360.ma reports, has sent a correspondence to the club after nine players of the […]
Egypt will not vote for the election of a new president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to take place in March 2021 in Morocco’s capital Rabat over the absence of an elected president. CAF last week said it will stage the election of its president next year in the Moroccan capital. Egypt’s Football […]
The Confederation of African Football, CAF, Sunday proposed to help Egypt, Africa’s largest winners of African Cup of Nations (AFCON) trophies, after the loss of the historic cup. “CAF has been informed about the disappearance of the AFCON via the secretariat of Egyptian Football Association (EFA). We are open and the EFA can rely on […]