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CAIRO (Reuters) – The African Football Confederation (CA) announced on Tuesday the selection of Egypt to host the 2019 Nations Cup after withdrawing from Cameroon due to lack of preparation.
The African Union Executive Committee met today in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to select the host country of Alcan, which was attended by 24 teams.
At the meeting table were two candidate countries, Egypt and South Africa, where the two countries went earlier in the month to learn about their jubilation.
K announced Monday that its executive committee should meet Tuesday instead of Wednesday.
The head of the Egyptian Football Federation, Hany Abu Reda, said in December that eight stadiums had been set up to host the tournament, in addition to the training ground, and that Egypt had submitted the file after consulting the Arab Member States of the African Confederation and obtaining its support and approval.
It should be noted that Egypt has hosted four times the largest continental tournament at the team level, the last in 2006, which means that this year's organization will be the fifth, a record ever achieved by an African country. .
South Africa hosted two versions of African nations in 1996 (instead of Kenya after the latter abstained from doing so because of financial difficulties) and in 2013 (instead of Libya).
Last November, the African Football Confederation decided to withdraw the Africa Cup of Nations from Cameroon, after reports that the country was not ready to host Alcan because of delays in infrastructure and stadiums and fears for safety.
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