Mbidi pleased with CAF AGM
Mbidi pleased with CAF AGM

Mbidi pleased with CAF AGM

Namibia Football Association (NFA) president Frans Mbidi yesterday returned from the Confederations of African Football (CAF) meeting.
Jesse Kauraisa
The Namibia Football Association president Frans Mbidi has welcomed some of the decisions taken at the Confederations of African Football (CAF) general meeting.

The 40th General CAF General Assembly was held in Casablanca, Morocco on 2 February which saw four new members elected to the CAF executive committee.

Jamal Jaafri (north zone), Augustin Senghor (west A zone), Sita Sangare (west B zone) and Edouard Patrice Ngaissona (central zone), are the new members.

Upon his return from Morocco yesterday, Mbidi said that exciting times are ahead for CAF as more transparency within the football body structures is now visible.

Mbidi believes Namibia will benefit from the change of leadership within the CAF structures.

“The general meeting was perfect and I must say many people I spoke to are happy about the new changes in the CAF structures.

“It was important CAF managed to complete the appointments of a judicial body chairperson and also a vice-chairperson.

“All this positive changes in CAF will benefit Namibia in terms of our football and administrative structures,” Mbidi said.

CAF's 54 member associations had the opportunity to look into the accounts of the 2016/17 budget.

Mbidi noted that the accounts showed a balance of US$117 million compared to US$9 million balance CAF had in 2015.



Morocco bid not discussed

Recent reports have suggested Morocco has showed a strong interested in submitting a bid for hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The country was expected to make their intentions known at the CAF general assembly.

This did however not happen as FIFA gave instructions that countries must refrain from advancing their positions on the World Cup bid until the football body allows them to do so.

So far, South Africa remains the only African country to have ever hosted the prestigious competition.

South Africa hosted the competition in 2010 with Spain beating the Netherlands in the final.

The competition has afterwards been tainted with corruption allegations after it was discovered the southern African country was involved in buying hosting rights.

Jesse Jackson Kauraisa

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