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Friday, 14 November 2014

CAF names Equitorial Guinea as new host of AFCON 2015

The Confederation of African Football has announced Equatorial Guinea as the new host of the Africa Cup of Nations 2015 following the decision of the football body to drop Morocco 3 days ago. 

CAF dropped Morocco as host of the football tournament on Tuesday November 11th following the nations request for postponement of the tournament in their country over Ebola fears.

A statement released by CAF this afternoon says the dates for the tournament will remain from Jan. 17-February 8 2015 and that four cities will be used for the tournament: Malabo, Bata, Mongomo and Ebebiyin. Find the full statement by CAF after the cut...
The Head of State and President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo this Friday 14 November met with the President of CAF Issa Hayatou concerning the possibility for Equatorial Guinea to host the Africa Cup of Nations Orange 2015. Following fraternal and fruitful discussions, the Head of State of Equatorial Guinea has agreed to host the tournament from January 17 to February 8, 2015.
Therefore, the Executive Committee of CAF confirms that the Orange Africa Cup of Nations 2015 will be held in Equatorial Guinea on the dates agreed, and the national team of Equatorial Guinea is qualified for the final tournament as a representative of the country host. The four cities selected for the finals are Malabo, Bata, Mongomo and Ebebiyin. The draw for the finals will take place Wednesday, December 3, 2014 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. The Executive Committee of CAF and President Issa Hayatou seize this opportunity to express their sincere thanks and deep appreciation to the people of Equatorial Guinea, its government, and particularly to His Excellency the Head of State and President of the Republic Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

23 comments:

Soyoyo said...

I hear

Alloy Chikezie said...

Good. I hope they are putting measures in place in terms of taming the spread of Ebola.


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Unknown said...

hopefully Nigeria will qualify

Unknown said...

Cool.
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Zems said...

Good stuff for Equatorial Guinea.

Uche Emma said...


Good.

Ebola cannot stop us

Unknown said...

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ary said...

So they found a mugu to host AFCON?! If CAF was people oriented, they would recognize the potent threat of ebola and shift this tournament till maybe next year, but no they wanna try God! Na Equitorial Guinea I dey pity! I doubt there would be a huge turn out for the tourney proper.

Unknown said...

Equitorial what?

Unknown said...

a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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Thank God they didnt bring it down to Nigeria.....
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

snowflix said...

Good for them #onelovefromSnow#

Unknown said...

If not for the 2015 election, Nigeria would have been the willing host. GEJ not taking chances

Anonymous said...

Nigeria get stadium to host person. Poverty stricken country.

Dlapikin said...

Clearly there are some idiots here that do not follow the competition and want to talk. Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea have most of their players abroad. those teams are currently playing qualifiers and none of them is really in a position to qualify. If all the other teams they are playing against right now in the qualifiers did not request the games to be cancelled by fear of Ebola why should Morocco fuss especially when educated fans all know that sierra leone and liberia have almost no chances of making it to the competion as it stands?
Sierra Leone has been playing Ivory Coast, DRC and Cameroon. As a precaution they were ask to play all their home games abroad and so far none of these countries have declared a single case of Ebola. Morrocans are just being their racist selves and need to take several seats.

Amablaze said...

Hmmmmm nah wah ohh..caf wld av allow ebv reduce to an extend na..

Unknown said...

This is not wise at all, they should postpone d competition till 2017, why must it be do or die. Ebola is real, they should know that. Infact, make Nigeria no even qualify, prevention is better than cure

Subomi said...

did we even qualify for this competition

Diamondz said...

Make dem no carry ebola come bck home oooo, abeg

Anonymous said...

Fuck off here you poverty stricken goat. Idiot. With your poverty stricken self

Unknown said...

Ok

Anonymous said...

Opss At last CAF dropped Morocco as host of the Afcon 2015 ...
But the spirit of African football is awesome .... they have big spirit for Afcon ...
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Congratulation for Guinea ....as a new host country of Afcon 2015 ...

Anonymous said...

Opss...CAF dropped Morocco as host of the football tournament....but african Football have big spirit for football and Afcon...
and
Congratulation for new host country ....

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