The Confederation of African Football has invited two Nigerian referees to officiate at the football tournaments of the 11th All-Africa Games, taking place in Brazzaville, Congo, 3-18 September this year.
The Confederation of African Football has invited two Nigerian referees to officiate at the football tournaments of the 11th All-Africa Games, taking place in Brazzaville, Congo, 3-18 September this year. While Amao Opeyemi will officiate in the men’s event, Bosede Momoh will be involved in the women’s tournament.
The Confederation of African Football has invited two Nigerian referees to officiate at the football tournaments of the 11th All-Africa Games, taking place in Brazzaville, Congo, 3-18 September this year. While Amao Opeyemi will officiate in the men’s event, Bosede Momoh will be involved in the women’s tournament.CAF has also picked Nigerian referees Abel Baba and Ferdinand Udoh as assistant referee 1 and reserve referee respectively for the CAF Champions League group A match between Moghreb Tetouan of Morocco and Smouha FC of Egypt, billed for Tetouan on August 23. The latest recognition is down to the capacity –building programme of the present NFF administration, which sent two batches of referees to the United Kingdom for educational purposes in December 2014 and February 2015.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has picked Monday, September 14 as date for the draw of the 2nd Africa U-23 Cup of Nations, which is set for Senegal between 28 November and 12 December this year. The tournament, at which Africa’s three flag-bearers at the Men’s Football Tournament of next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will emerge (with a fourth team playing off against an Asian side), will hold in Dakar and M’Bour – the two cities that also hosted the African Youth Championship earlier this year. Host Senegal will be joined by Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Mali, Zambia and South Africa.
Also, at its meeting, the CAF Executive Committee confirmed that the draw for the 4th African Nations Championship, scheduled for Rwanda between 16 January and 7 February, 2016, will take place in Kigali on November 18. Nigeria has Burkina Faso hurdle to cross over two legs in October. At the same meeting, CAF decided to rename its competitions, except the Africa Cup of Nations, the African Nations Championship, the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. Other competitions will now be known and addressed as Africa Women Cup of Nations (formerly African Women Championship); Africa U-23 Cup of Nations (formerly African U-23 Championship); Africa U-20 Cup of Nations (formerly African Youth Championship); Africa U-17 Cup of Nations (formerly African U-17 Championship); Africa Beach-Soccer Cup of Nations (formerly African Beach Soccer Championship) and; Africa Futsal Cup of Nations (formerly African Futsal Championship). A CAF inspection team will visit Rwanda between 23 and 27 August to appraise the state of preparedness for the 4th African Nations Championship, and also have working sessions with the Local Organizing Committee.
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