AFTER a year, in which there has been no international football on the continent, the Confederation of African Football announced this week that they have set the possible return of national team competitions for November. The programme was halted in March when the third and fourth matches of the 2021 AFCON qualifiers were scheduled to be played. The Warriors were scheduled to take on reigning African champions, Algeria, in back-to-back matches, when the qualifiers were suspended. “Like all of you, we have a burning desire to get back to the normal flow of African football life and, let’s be frank, we are also very eager to relive those unique atmospheres that give the chills in the stadiums,’’ Ahmad said. Football is our sport on this continent, but we have to be careful about taking huge gambles because this sport is not as important as life.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 21, 2020 22:41 UTC