The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has announced the postponement of the next Africa Cup of Nations which was expected to hold in Cote d’Ivoire next year (2023) to 2024.
The tournament was to be hosted in June-July 2023, which is the height of the rainy season in Cote d’Ivoire.
“We cannot take the risk,” CAF President Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe said in the Moroccan capital Rabat.
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With the World Cup in Qatar taking place in November and December this year, the decision has been taken to postpone the finals rather than bring them forward.
“January is not the ideal time because of the European clubs, but it is the only choice we have,” Motsepe added.
Under former CAF President Issa Hayatou, who was overthrown in 2017, African football’s ruling body refused to countenance any possible change of date for the months the continent’s flagship sports event is hosted.