The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Patrice Motsepe, has declared that the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will be played among January and February, 2024.
The choice to defer the competition, to be facilitated in Ivory Coast, to 2024 was chosen by the CAF Executive Committee on Sunday, July 3.
The AFCON was at first planned to be played in June and July one year from now however worries over the stormy season in Cote d'Ivoire have constrained the Executive Council of Africa's football administering body to delay the show-stopper.
Serious floods have raised a ruckus around town African country as of late, inciting coordinators to move the competition to January and February 2024, when there is less probability of deluges.
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"The 2023 AFCON will presently be played among January and February 2024," Mostepe told the media during a public interview in Rabat.
"This is one of the issues we examined during our congress meeting here in Morocco and the authority dates will be conveyed later.
"It is after consultations we came into the choice, we have accomplices and despite the fact that we simply decide, it is out of regard that we take the guidance we are getting that we can't face a challenge [to have the tournament] thus to that end we have made the vital declaration today [Sunday].
Short-term festivities in Senegal after AFCON win
"It isn't really great for African football to play a competition that can be cleaned out, it isn't great for Africa and the mainland at large and so we need to defer it," he made sense of.
The last competition was won by Senegal after beat Egypt 4-2 on punishments to secure their most memorable Afcon win after two past conclusive losses.
Following their triumph, the nation pronounced February 7, 2022 a public occasion to praise the triumph.
There were likewise scenes of celebration in the French capital, Paris, home to an enormous Senegalese people group. Great many commending allies assembled at the Arc du Triomphe.
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