Confederation of African Football (CAF) has canceled the 2021 Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations which was due to start this week in Morocco.
The CAF Emergency Committee rose from a meeting on Monday, March 8, 2021, in Rabat, Morocco, to cancel the 2021 Under-17 Total Africa Cup of Nations.
The Committee cited constraints faced by some of the participating member associations as well as the host country, including the fact that the coronavirus pandemic continues to present significant challenges for the organization of international sporting events.
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“We took into account the cancellation by FIFA of the Under-17 World Cup for which the U-17 CAN have been the qualifying event,” the Committee further noted:
For all these reasons, the Committee decided to cancel the 2021 edition of the Total Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations, originally scheduled for 13-31 of March 2021.
However, in a related story, Nigeria’s Under-17 boys came close to a stunning comeback from three goals down before losing 2-3 to their Ivorian counterparts in Monday night’s final of the WAFU Under-17 Cup Tournament in the Togolese capital, Lome.
The sleeky Baby Elephants, who had won all their previous three games in the tournament (1-0 over Nigeria; 3-1 over Ghana and; 1-0 over the Niger Republic), raced to a 1-0 first-half lead and then added two more before the 70th minute, leaving five-time world champions Nigeria crestfallen and looking out of sorts at the Stade Kegue.
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However, the Eaglets pulled themselves together and scored two quick goals late in the game to earn a respectable result, as both teams proudly picked tickets to the 2021 Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations holding in Morocco 13th -31st March.
Earlier in the evening, Burkina Faso’s Baby Etalons, who lost 0-1 to Nigeria in the semi-finals, grabbed the tournament’s bronze medals after an 11-10 penalty shoot-out win over the Niger Republic following 1-1 draw in the classification match.
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