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Asante Kotoko has officially written to the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to notify the Association of its decision to maintain Accra Sports Stadium as its home stadium in the CAF Champions League.
The move is a quick change after Porcupine wrote to the Ghana FA about their willingness to use the Aliu Mahama sports stadium as their adoption ground.
Kotoko initially wrote to the GFA to use the Aliu Mahama sports stadium as their venue for their game against Al Hilal of Sudan in the CAF Champions League, which is scheduled for December 23, 2020.
But after careful consideration, the Porcupine Warriors have agreed that the Accra sports stadium will serve them better, especially as the government has refused to open the various stadiums to spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Due to renovation works at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, Kotoko opted for the Accra Sports Stadium, the same home venue for four other teams, including rivals Hearts of Oak.
The earlier decision to go to Tamale was conceived because the location was considered closer to Kumasi (Kotoko’s original home) than Accra and it would have made financial sense to reduce the team’s travel expenses.
The GFA had reached the final stages of approval of the Tamale Stadium for the use of Kotoko before the club responded to reverse its earlier request.
The Porcupine Warriors went from the preliminary round to this stage without kicking a ball after Mauritania’s FC Noaudibou were unable to team up for the second leg due to coronavirus infections.
The CAF in a statement stated that Asante Kotoko made progress at the expense of FC Nouadibou because the latter failed to raise a team.
“The game was not played because the Mauritanian team could not meet the minimum number of players required by the CAF for positive cases of COVID in the team. As a result, FC Nouadhibou was disqualified and Asante Kotoko automatically qualified for the next round to face Al Hilal ”.
Asante Kotoko will first host the Sudanese giants here in Ghana at the Accra Sports Stadium in the first leg before heading to North Africa for the second leg next year.
Source: The Finder
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