The Confederation of African
football (CAF) will have to shop for a new host for the 2015 African Nations
Cup as hitherto hosts, Morocco, announced on Thursday that they are no longer
willing to host the bi-annual football tournament.
The North African country, who
interestingly will be hosting the FIFA World Club tournament, had earlier asked
CAF to postpone the tournament due to the spread of Ebola virus in parts of
West Africa.
However, the continental football
body insisted that the tournament would go ahead in January 2015 as originally
scheduled. It was in this light that Morocco has now informed CAF that the
tournament poses health and security risk to its citizens if it should hold on
the earlier agreed date. And since both parties could not reach a compromise,
they are no longer interested in hosting the competition.
Morocco’s withdrawal puts CAF in a
desperate position. With less than three months to go to the kickoff of the
competition, the continental football governing body is yet to announce
replacement for the North African country.
Already, host of the 2013 edition, South Africa
are said to be on standby to host the tournament while Ghana is also said to be
ready to host the football showpiece, PREMIUM TIMES reports.
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