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Confederation of African Football has put the seal of approval
on Cameroon’s 2019 AFCON hosting rights, saying the tournament will not be
taken away from the central African country.
Concerns that Cameroon would be overwhelmed by organising an expanded 24-team tournament saw possible replacements being hyped as either Morocco or South Africa.
This was after the 2019 AFCON had initially been scheduled for
16 competing nations, and the massive infrastructural upgrades needed to
accommodate the increased teams had cast doubts on Cameroon’s hosting capacity.
But following CAF’s third inspection of Cameroon’s preparedness which ended on
Monday, the continental football governing body was left satisfied with
progress made so far.
CAF vice president Amaju Pinnick gave assurances that Cameroon
would not be stripped of the hosting rights. “What we have seen so far is quite
impressive,” Pinnick told Cameroon National Radio and Television. “The
government (of Cameroon) has made a huge effort towards hosting the best AFCON
ever.
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