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At its meeting held in Rabat, Morocco, in 2017, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) revised several working groups and one of them is that the playoffs of the African Cup of Nations. Africa U-17 Nations will be played in the Zones. 19659002] Gunda: The U-17 team from Malawi is currently aware of the two-part situation
According to reports, the format of the qualifying competition should be modified and divided according to areas. At the end of the qualification phase, seven teams will join the hosts, this Tanzania being this year.
"The Committee decided to hold zonal eliminations for the Africa Cup of Nations U-17 with the flexibility to come up with a formula," says the report posted on the CAF website.
Alfred Gunda, secretary general of FAM, confirmed the development, saying that they have everything set up and that the U-17 team of Malawi is currently aware of the situation comes with the championship of Young Cosafa U-17 of 2018.
"While the team goes to the Cosafa tournament, we are aware that its success will bring the team to Tanzania for the continental tournament."
CAF is working to ensure that the Africa Cup of Nations and the World Cup qualifiers follow the same format of zone qualification, which will reduce costs for many countries.
Gunda confirmed that CAF CAF also agreed to increase the number of participations in the Africa Cup of Nations to 24 against 16 from the 2019 edition.
"The tournament will be held in June and July, but the competition will remain biennial (every two years), odd years and exclusively played on African soil with African national teams."
After the teams' disappointment African at the 2018 Russia World Cup, many schools believe that the continent needs other representatives than the usual ones such as Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Tunisia and other countries. # 39; others.
It is suggested that FIFA and CAF can devise a strategy other than the qualification Analysts believe that teams like Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria, who respectively won the Cup of Nations 39, African Nations 7, 5, 4 and 3 times, must reach, at least, the semi-finals if Analysts say that Africa needs more teams at the World Cup than five teams of more than 50 badociations. Maybe FIFA and CAF can say that two teams from zonal groupings like COSAFA, CECAFA, UAFO and the North African confederation should qualify and that each confederation should compete in its own regional group . experiment a new mix of African football rather than that of the usual suspects, Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria. "
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