The Confederation of African Football is set to name three female match officials who took part in a training course as part of preparations for the Total African Nations Championship (CHAN) Cameroon 2020, earlier scheduled for April 4-25.
The trio – Ethiopian central referee Lidya Tafesse and assistant referees, Bernadettar Kwimbira (Malawi) and Mimisen Iyorhe (Nigeria) joined their male counterparts, 19 referees and 19 assistant referees for a five-day course held from March 10-14, at the Technical Centre of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation in Rabat.
It will be third major men’s competitions to have female match officials after the Total U-17 Africa Cup of Nations Tanzania 2019 and the Total U-23 Africa Cup of Nations Egypt 2019.
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According to CAF Refereeing Director, Eddy Maillet, the decision is to provide a platform of more competitions for the female referees, considering the limited number of women’s tournaments and also to improve their match fitness.
Recently, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced the suspension of all of its competitions due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The football body said on Friday that a new date for AFCON 2021 Qualifiers will be decided.
CAF had initially said it would go ahead with qualifiers for the CHAN 2021 scheduled for March 25 to 31 and CHAN 2020 scheduled for April 4 to 25.
UEFA have called off all Europe’s top two competitions, Uefa Champions League and Europa league games ties slated for next week due to COVID-19 outbreak.
This is in line with the precautionary measures against the pandemic, the virus which is fast spreading across Europe.
Some Players of top flight European clubs like Paulo Dybala and Danielle Rugani of Juventus , Callum Hudson Odoi of Chelsea and recently Arsenal Manager have all tested positive for the virus leading to the self isolation of whole teams and staffs.
The virus has been declared a Pandemic by WHO.
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