Caf Champions League: Gor Mahia must honour CR Belouizdad clashThe Kenyan champions will have to get means to reach Algiers for the first leg as the African body have dismissed their requestThe Confederation of African Football (Caf) has turned down a request by to have their Caf match against CR Belouizdad rescheduled and played on neutral ground. “I would like to inform you that the necessary has been done to allow the officials and the visiting team [Gor Mahia] to travel to Algeria,” read the letter from Caf to the FKF and obtained by Goal. “We received the authorizations from the Algerian authorities to allow those concerned to reach Algerian soil, which we sent to the referees, match commissioner, the Gor Mahia team and to the Algerian embassy in Kenya. On the other hand, CR Belouizdad reached the next round after a 4-0 aggregate win against Al Nasr of Libya. The Algerian champions won the first leg away in Tripoli 2-0 and returned home to complete the job with another 2-0 win.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 21, 2020 08:03 UTC