Showing posts with label West Africa Football Union General Assembly. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 12 January 2016

"Football Is Currently Going Through Some Global Challenges"-Kwesi Nyantakyi

President of the West Africa Football Union, Kwesi football is currently going through some global challenges and that it’s the hope of CAF that with the new reforms in Fifa, they will grow from strength to strength.


Nyantakyi mentioned this during his opening speech at the West Africa Football Association congress held in Ghana on Tuesday at the Movenpick hotel in Accra.


” We acknowledge that football is currently going through some global challenges and it’s our hope that with the reforms in Fifa we will grow from strength to strength”, Mr. Nyantakyi mentioned.


“Our union has proven to be the strongest in Africa and that can be seen in our performance in continental competitions. The winner of the last AFCON, Côte D’Ivoire is a member of our Union and the losing finalists, Ghana is also from our zone”.


“I also wish to congratulate Nigeria for winning the Under 17 World Cup last year and for emerging as winners of the Under 23 tournament”, Mr. Nyantakyi stated in his opening remarks.


“We have seen improvement in organizing competitions. Last year we intended to organize a U-17 tournament in Burkina Faso, unfortunately, a week to the tournament there was a coup d’etat there so we called off the tournament. Burkina Faso has however expressed its readiness to host the competition this year which will be telecasted by Supersports”.


“Our zone has seen some challenges in Togo and Benin where there are currently normalization committees. We are hoping that very soon the issues will be resolved”.




"Football Is Currently Going Through Some Global Challenges"-Kwesi Nyantakyi

Pictures: West Africa Football Union General Assembly




Watch exclusive pictures of the West Africa Football Union General Assembly in Ghana’s capital Accra.

The gathering will see 3 top members from FIFA running for the top position tops to pass through in a bid to lobby WAFU’s support.


The 3 include Prince Ali Bin Husein, Gianni Infantino and Salman Al Khalifa.




The Assembly was chaired by the president of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi. 


WAFU Zone B is made up of Football Associations from Ghana Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cote D’Ivoire, Nigeria, Togo



Photo Credit: Senyuiedzorm Awusi Adadevoh (Images-Image)


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Pictures: West Africa Football Union General Assembly