Augustine Arhinful wants newly-elected CAF capo restructure AFCON date to move in tandem with European calendar

Published on: 24 March 2017

Former Ghana forward Augustine Arhinful has urged the newly-elected CAF President Ahmad Ahmad to restructure the AFCON tournament date to equate with the European championship calendar.

There has been calls from a section of football connoisseurs seeking for continent’s biennial football festival to be moved in tandem with the European football calendar since the days of former CAF capo Issa Hayatou as major of the European clubs vehemently complain about losing their top African players to the tournament.

And Arhinful, has added his voice to the growing concerns as he believes it will serve the competition right should it be overhauled to move with the European calendar.

"We need him to move the AFCON to a date which will favour both the European clubs and the countries,” Arhinful told FootballGhana.

"This will help them to have a full complement of the squad to make the competition more competitive," he added.

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