CAF's general secretary Hicham El Amrani said an agreement between South Africa and Libya to swap the dates of future tournaments they are to host still need to be ratified by African football's executive committee, which next meets late next month in Cairo. "We are disappointed that the South African Football Association has chosen to make public these discussions and plans before the matter is discussed by our executive committee," he said. "It would have been correct to have waited until it is discussed and ratified. It is premature and it has upset us that there has been this breach of protocol" South Africa, who hosted last year's World Cup finals, made public yesterday an agreement with Libya over the hosting of the 2013 and 2017 finals. They released a surprise brief statement on their website. Libya were due to host the 2013 finals but have swapped with the South Africa, who had been designated the 2017 event, after discussions between the two country's football associations. The civil war situation Libya has halted almost all footballing activity in the country since March as rebels attempt to overthrow the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. The next Nations Cup finals are to be co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon in January and February after which the tournament switches to every odd year. Morocco are the hosts in 2015.
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Stop claiming to know too much we didn't want to participate bcos CAF Championship is very cheap and this is the reason the banned us.
As far as Africa is concerned only 4 countries have the infrastructure to host any CAF competition at short notice and they are Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa and Morrocco and CAF knows this. there's no conspiracy here just ethics that were not followed. By the way, Congratulations to Bafana Bafana for qualifying for AFCON 2012 ahead of Egypt. thats no mean feat..
Chiefs do not participate because they accused CAF of conspiring against Southern African teams generally and South African teams specifically after they were knocked out of the more lucrative champions league and forced to play the lesser recognised Mandela Cup. This was so surprising given that to this day the Mandela Cup is said to sit on top of KC trophy cabinet and their single most important cup ever. When you win the champions league you actually get more than 1.5 million US Dollars. That should be more than 1o million rands.
Dragg: 2011-08-28 16:03,
Nigeria does not have any capacity to host any event at short notice. Unless of course you mean under 17 tournaments. Nigeria does not have infrastructure. Okay they can host a lot of gatherings for fake pastors any day. Thy have fake churches in abudance at Lagos.