FIFA President Gianni Infantino is at the head of a pool of
global football administrators and stakeholders who are in Rabat, Morocco for a
two –day African Football Symposium starting on Tuesday.
The FIFA supremo was received at the Mohamed V International
Airport, Casablanca on Monday afternoon by CAF President Ahmad and his two
deputies, Kwesi Nyantakyi and Omari Constant Selemani.
The symposium,
which will be followed by a CAF Extra-Ordinary General Assembly on Friday, has
been put together to ferment robust new ideas and ideals for the transformation
of the African game, and serve as a sort of game –changer that will drive the
vision of the new CAF leadership that swept into office four months ago.
CAF President Ahmad and the President of the Federation
Royale Marocaine de Football, Fouzi Lekjaa are chief hosts of the symposium
taking place at the International Conference Centre, Mohammed VI, Skhirat.
NFF President Amaju Pinnick (like Lekjaa a Member of the CAF
Executive Committee), Vice Presidents Seyi Akinwunmi and Shehu Dikko, General
Secretary Mohammed Sanusi, former NFF General Secretary Musa Amadu and Director
of Communications Ademola Olajire are in the Nigeria delegation in Morocco.
Thenff.com also learnt that a proposal to increase the
number of teams at the Africa Cup of Nations finals from 16 to 24 teams, and
switch the finals from January to the summer, is one of the key points to be
discussed at the symposium and the extra-ordinary general assembly.
Proponents are hinging their position on a number of
positives, including the fact that a 24 –team AFCON finals will mean more money
for CAF, more money for the African FAs, involvement of more nations and
therefore more fans in the Cup finals, involvement of more stakeholders of the
African game and its capacity to propel the development of infrastructure
around the African continent as co-hosting of the finals will ultimately be
encouraged.
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