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Ahmed Ahmed, president of the Confederation of African Football Confederation, “CAF” informed the leaders of the Football Association that they are postponing the semi-finals of the African Champions League to be played on October 17 and 18, always that the second round be held on the 23rd and 24th of the same month. The president of the CAF also informed the leaders of the Football Federation. The final match will be held on November 6 and these decisions will be officially announced later on Thursday.
In a related development, Mahmoud Al-Khatib, president of the Al-Ahly Club, apologized for attending the CAF Competition Committee meeting, which was held last night, Tuesday, via video conferencing technology to discuss the fate of the CAF Champions League semifinals, while Hanan Al-Zaini, Director of Regulations at Al-Ahly, attended the meeting, representing In the Red Castle also attended by Amir Mortada Mansour, supervisor of the football team from Zamalek, and Hani Saeed, Pyramids sports director, was also present on behalf of his club.
The last few days have witnessed controversy over the fate of the semi-finals of the Champions League and the semi-finals of the Confederation. After the CAF set the date for the start of the semi-finals of the two tournaments at the end of September, Moroccan reports indicated that the CAF will postpone the date of the matches until mid-October due to the increase in Crown injuries in the Moroccan League, which made a committee CAF competitions meet today with the eight semi-finals of the two tournaments to discuss this matter.
Hany Abu Raida, a member of the Supreme Council of FIFA and a member of the Executive Committee of the African Confederation, played an important role in the Egyptian clubs attending this important meeting to determine the fate of the semi-finals of the two championships, as Abu Raida had the idea of attending the eight participating clubs in the semifinals of the two championships at this meeting. To know your opinions on this topic.
Al-Khatib did not participate in this meeting to feel the shame as he is a member of the CAF Club Committee, and assigned Al-Khatib, Hanan Al-Zaini, to attend, as Zamalek, Amir Mortada Mansour and Pyramids Hani attended. Saeed.
Al-Ahly will play Wydad and Zamalek Raja in the Champions League semi-finals, while Pyramids will play Guinean’s Houria Conakry and Renaissance Borkan’s Hassania Agadir in the Confederation semi-finals.
The meeting witnessed intense discussions due to the disagreement about holding the remaining matches of the two competitions on the dates specified in advance or to modify them due to the humanitarian and health conditions that Morocco is going through after the outbreak of the Corona virus and the infection of many players and the difficulty of the transfer of the Moroccan teams participating in the two tournaments “Wydad and Raja”. Hassania Agadir and Nahdet Berkane “are out of the country to complete the competition.
The opinion was shared by the representative of the Al-Rajaa Club, who requested that the remaining matches be postponed to a later date for the same reasons, and the representative of the Guinean Freedom Club of Conakry did not object to the postponement of the aforementioned matches in recognition of the conditions that Morocco is going through. As for the Zamalek Club representative, he demanded that the matches take place on the dates specified by He accepted without delay, and with him in the same opinion, to the Pyramids Club, pointing out the possibility of holding the remaining matches of the two championships in Egypt, which made the representatives of Wydad and Al-Raja respond and highlight the difficulty of moving their teams out of their country at this time in compliance with the precautionary measures imposed by the state regarding the representatives of the Nahdet Borkan clubs and Hassaniya. Agadir was unable to express their views due to the difficulty of communicating over the Internet, and they would send their views to enough, even if their officials’ statements in the media confirm their solidarity with Wydad and Raja.
