Last Updated: December 22, 2022, 12:25 IST
Johannesburg, South Africa
FILE – Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Patrice Motsepe speaks throughout a news convention in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. The African soccer confederation introduced late Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 that it has eliminated Guinea as host of the 2025 African Cup of Nations due to insufficient infrastructure, the most recent in a sequence of switches and delays for the continental championship over the past 10 years. It was introduced after Motsepe traveled to the nation to satisfy with the top of the army junta in Guinea who took energy in a coup in 2021. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana and Cameroon participated within the lately concluded 2022 World Cup in Qatar as Morocco created historical past by changing into the primary workforce from Africa to make it to the semifinals of the world’s largest event
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is pleased with the performances of the 5 African groups on the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, CAF President Patrice Motsepe has mentioned.
“It is the primary time within the historical past of the FIFA World Cup that an African nation has certified for the semifinals. Our goal of guaranteeing that an African Nation wins the FIFA World Cup is alive and inside attain,” Motsepe said at a press briefing in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
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Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana and Cameroon participated in the recently concluded 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
He said that they would continue to invest in football schools, youth academies for boys and girls and football infrastructure and facilities, and they are committed to improving the quality of football in the continent, including trainers, coaches and referees, reports Xinhua.
“We are making significant progress in ensuring that African football is self-supporting and globally competitive. We will continue to use football as a tool to unite people from different races, ethnic groups and religious backgrounds and to contribute to improving the social-economic and living conditions of all people,” Motsepe mentioned.
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