Football
FIFA President Gianni
Infantino is at the head of a pool of global football administrators and
stakeholders who are in Rabat, Morocco for a two –day African Football
Symposium starting on Tuesday.
The FIFA supremo was
received at the Mohamed V International Airport, Casablanca on Monday afternoon
by CAF President Ahmad and his two deputies, Kwesi Nyantakyi and Omari Constant
Selemani.
CAF insiders hinted
thenff.com on Monday that the symposium, which will be followed by a CAF
Extra-Ordinary General Assembly on Friday, has been put together to ferment
robust new ideas and ideals for the transformation of the African game, and
serve as a sort of game –changer that will drive the vision of the new CAF
leadership that swept into office four months ago.
CAF President Ahmad and
the President of the Federation Royale Marocaine de Football, Fouzi Lekjaa are
chief hosts of the symposium taking place at the International Conference
Centre, Mohammed VI, Skhirat.
NFF President Amaju
Pinnick (like Lekjaa a Member of the CAF Executive Committee), Vice Presidents
Seyi Akinwunmi and Shehu Dikko, General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi, former NFF
General Secretary Musa Amadu and Director of Communications Ademola Olajire are
in the Nigeria delegation in Morocco.
Thenff.com also learnt
that a proposal to increase the number of teams at the Africa Cup of Nations
finals from 16 to 24 teams, and switch the finals from January to the summer,
is one of the key points to be discussed at the symposium and the
extra-ordinary general assembly.
Proponents are hinging
their position on a number of positives, including the fact that a 24 –team
AFCON finals will mean more money for CAF, more money for the African FAs,
involvement of more nations and therefore more fans in the Cup finals,
involvement of more stakeholders of the African game and its capacity to propel
the development of infrastructure around the African continent as co-hosting of
the finals will ultimately be encouraged.
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