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A photo taken on April 22, 2018 shows the headquarters of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Cairo. / AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI
Reports from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) indicate that the governing body of continental football could deprive Cameroon of the right to host the Africa Cup of Nations 2019.
This is the result of a report that shows that the defending African champions are not about to be ready to host the competition next year.
Instead, CAF seeks to host Nigeria or Morocco.
Morocco has shown that it has the ability to host such an important short-term championship by organizing the African Nations Championship (CHAN) at the beginning. this year, while Nigeria is considered because it has the facilities, which need minor touches to host the event.
The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations will be the first to host 24 teams in the competition and the CAF report says Cameroon, which was struggling to get ready for 16 teams, did not not the means to cover 24 countries. The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) and the Ministry of Sports have alluded to the World Cup in Russia that the country could offer to help Cameroon host some Nations Cup matches when it was asked to get help.
Sports Minister Solomon Dalung was unable to react to the latest development because he was supposed to leave the country.
A NFF official stated that the federation would not comment on the development unless the relevant authorities had requested it.
Meanwhile, the former England manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson, revealed that he was waiting for Cameroon to decide whether he would become the next manager of the Indomitable.
According to Associated Press, the Cameroon Football Federation confirmed that held with the former 70-year-old England director on the role, which was vacant since the departure of Hugo Broos at the end of his contract in February.
A statement on the official Twitter account of the Federation said: "After 72 hours, Sven – Goran Eriksson left Yaounde on Saturday, July 28, 2018.
" The Swedish manager was invited to Cameroon for a discussion about the Recruitment of a head coach of the Senior National Selection – The Indomitable Lions. The interview of Sven-Goran Eriksson and taking into account the other existing offers, Fecafoot will reveal in the coming days his choice of permanent coach for our national team. "
The Swedish coa He has held various roles since the management of the National Team of England
Press Association Sport revealed last week that the Swede was also racing to become the boss of Iraq, having had talks with the Iraqi Football Association, also led the national teams of Mexico and Ivory Coast between 2001 and 2006. He also led Manchester City. and Leicester [2] China, which it left in June of last year.
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