[ 2014-09-21 ]

Ghana's chance in hosting 2017 AFCON alive as CAF decides against unscheduled naming
Ghana are still in the chance of hosting the 2017
Africa Cup of Nations after CAF on Saturday
decided against the an unscheduled naming of the
host for the competition.

Kenya, Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali and Zimbabwe
are interested in replacing strife-torn Libya as
the 2017 hosts ahead of a September 30 deadline
for bids.

Top CAF chief were considering naming Algeria as
hosts of the competition because of the
availability of facilities after it joined the bid
to host the 2017 and 2019 bids.

However, CAF binned the idea and instead made the
unscheduled announcement of naming Guinea at the
host

The countries including Ghana will make their bid
presentations before a decision is taken on the
host of the competition which is just three years
awau.

Each country will make a 30-minute, eve-of-vote
presentation early next year and the executive
committee also have a report on each candidate to
help them decide.

A five-man inspection team will spend several days
in each of the countries seeking to host the
tournament.

Among the facilities under the Caf microscope were
stadiums, training grounds, hotels, hospitals and
media centres, plus road, rail and air links.

The Nations Cup has been spread around the
continent recently with southern, central, western
and northern countries among the previous five
hosts.

Ethiopia were the last east African hosts in 1976
with cash-strapped Kenya withdrawing as 1996 hosts
and South Africa taking over.

The 2017 Cup of Nations hosts will be named only
next year even though the 2019 and 2021 hosts are
known.

Source - Ghanasoccer

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