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SPORTS
AFCON
 who is after Cameroon?

Ahmed Sobier, former Egyptian soccer goalkeeper who has become a sports pundit says Cameroon’s hosting rights of the 2019 AFCON have been stripped off.


A Ghanaian soccer online platform broke the news Monday July 30, 2018 and says this is based on an independent inquiry report that has been summitted to CAF and which shows Cameroon does not have the needed infrastructure to host the “new AFCON” with 24 teams. 
Many are yet to come to terms with this information given that CAF will decide on the fate of Cameroon in September which is still enough time for Cameroon to put things in place and considering Prime Minister, Philemon Yang’s last observation when he went visiting sports infrastructure to host the groups in the various regions recently. He was visibly satisfied with steady growth in the rate execution of the projects. Also, many Cameroonians doubt the information because Sobier is no right source to give out information concerning African football.
However, note be taken there have seemingly been attempts to strip off Cameroon’s hosting right starting from Ahmad’s declaration at one point that Cameroon was not going to host the competition. Since then, the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon got involved and is bent on overseeing that Cameroon football and nation is not dragged in the mud on the international scene.
But one should not be sitting when a handwriting keeps appearing on the wall. Critics even mock at Cameroon and say the uncompleted stadia are under construction in Europe and will be brought in and installed overnight.
With all these talks, one only wonders who is after Cameroon’s hosting rights? Is CAF bribed to favor Morocco which is placed before Cameroon now? Has Cameroon failed to present the infrastructure on said date as bill boards suggest in Cameroon? We wait to get answers in September. Then and only then, we will know who hosts AFCON 2019. 

Awoh Caleb N. (ACN) in Yaoundé-cameroon
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