CAF President Ahmad Ahmad has hinted that the upcoming football symposium in Morocco will form the blueprint for the development of the game on the continent.
The new CAF chief is on a working visit to South Africa where he lauded their federation, called on them to pivot development of football on the continent and hinted of the objectives of the symposium.
"We have invited all stakeholders of the game including coaches and club owners; this symposium should give us a direction on the way forward,” he said.
The CAF president said while there has been lots of talk that CAF should move its headquarters to South Africa from Egypt, he said this was not part of his agenda during his campaign.
He said he has not found out what reasons the founding fathers of CAF, to which South Africa was part, arrived at having the Headquarters in Cairo but one thing is that Egypt civilisation helped this great African continent.
“The reasons for taking the CAF HQ to Egypt were taken by the pioneers of African football and they decided to have it in ancient Egypt. I don’t see the reason for taking away the CAF HQ from Egypt,” he said.
Ahmad said while there were some reservations about the COSAFA and CHAN tournaments, these competitions were critical in developing the game on the African continent.
He noted that instead of doing away with these tournaments, the continent must look at consolidating them to to facilitate the development of the game on the continent.
“Africa is a huge continent and as such regional tournaments play a vital role in the development of the game in Africa.
“And it is on this scope that that I should praise COSAFA for managing to have these various tournaments annually. It is not easy but we should just find a way to better organise and run them.”