Morocco will not host the
2015 Africa Cup of nations,
it has emerged. Instead, the
country has asked for the
tournament to be shifted to
2016 to prevent the
possible spread of the Ebola virus disease that has
ravaged three countries in west Africa.
It is evident that Caf will now need to shop for new
hosts, less than two months to the start of the
tournament on January 17, 2015.
In a press release by the sports minister
Mohammed Ouzzine, Morocco maintained its call
for the tournament to be postponed to 2016, while
the next tournament would hold in 2017 to enable it
return to its regular odd year format.
Morocco suggested that it could be done since Caf
held back-to-back tournaments in 2012 and 2013,
when it was shifted to the odd year.
During a parliamentary session on Tuesday,
Morocco’s sports minister was quoted as saying:
“The Kingdom has no intention of giving in to the
injunctions of CAF because the health risk is too
large.”
Surely embarrassed by this last minute change, Caf
is expected to meet on November 11 where it
would announce replacement hosts for the
tournament.
While South Africa and Ghana have opted against
hosting the tournament, Goal exclusively reported
that Nigeria were interested a fortnight ago.
Reports also indicate that 2010 hosts, Angola,
could be a possible option.
Caf would also decide on punishment for Morocco’s
late no show which would be seen as a betrayal of
trust seeing that the country would host the Fifa
Club World Cup next month.
The World Health Organisation has not expressly
ruled out large gatherings as against what the
Moroccan authorities have put out.
Morocco’s football will be the poorer as it is
expected to be banned for four years from all
continental competitions as well as the payment of
a huge fine.
The final round of qualifying matches for the 2015
Afcon will take place on November 15 and
19 across the continent while Caf has already asked
interested media to apply for accreditation to cover
the tournament.
source :goal.com

As it is, no country will accept to host the tourny at this scary time. CAF should put health first before money. Even George Weah doesn't support the competition taking place next year due to the ebola crisis. Morocco should be commended for taking this bold step, the worst CAF will do is ban morocco for 2 or 4 years from their useless/corrupt competitions

over to you shekau, can't you allow mubi to host the tournament?

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seunlayi:
over to you shekau, can't you allow mubi to host the tournament?

lol

Please Nff don't even think of bringing it here. We just got clear of Ebola let's not get cocky.

Another opportunity to showcase our akwa ibom stadium and bring in fresh ebola into Nigeria.

Which should we belive now?...recently, i heard they've accepted to host the Afcon....now they are no more hosting it...

mikeson12:
Why is CAF priortizing the Cup Of Nations above the health and well being of Africans?Mek them no even try carry the tournament come Nigeria.

Yet they want to host the club world cup in December? does this make sense to you?

honeric01:


Yet they want to host the club world cup in December? does this make sense to you?

The club world cup won't lead to the spread of ebola.The clubs that are taking part in it aren't from ebola stricken areas.Countries like Seria Leone,Guinea and Mali can spread the disease through its fans.

mikeson12:



The club world cup won't lead to the spread of ebola.The clubs that are taking part in it aren't from ebola stricken areas.Countries like Seria Leone,Guinea and Mali can spread the disease through its fans.

Choi, is there no ebola in Spain that Real Madrid is coming from?

Were you the one that put ebola in Mali or Guinea ? who told you Seria Leone is qualifying for Nations cup?

Of the 3 countries you listed. only one has a clearer possibility of going to the nations cup.. Before you type your next comment, research and have facts with you..

honeric01:


Choi, is there no ebola in Spain that Real Madrid is coming from?

Were you the one that put ebola in Mali or Guinea ? who told you Seria Leone is qualifying for Nations cup?

Of the 3 countries you listed. only one has a clearer possibility of going to the nations cup.. Before you type your next comment, research and have facts with you..

Spain has already contained Ebola.Liberia.Guinea and Seirra Leone might qualify for the AFCON,don't rule them out.

For your information,Ebola is currently ravaging Guinea while Mali has 3 cases of Ebola at Kaye.

Next time do a proper research before quoting me,take care!

mikeson12:



Spain has already contained Ebola.Liberia.Guinea and Seirra Leone might qualify for the AFCON,don't rule them out.

For your information,Ebola is currently ravaging Guinea while Mali has 3 cases of Ebola at Kaye.

Next time do a proper research before quoting me,take care!

I am sorry but you are joking.. which Spain contained Ebola? has the doctors recovered? any country with a recorded case and still in quarantine shouldn't be declared safe..

Even US are still in quarantine stage , yet soccer and basketball are being played weekly.

Same with Spain, if these countries haven't stopped sporting activities, why should Mali be different?

You have little knowledge on what you are talking about. Apart from Seria Leone and Guinea (likely to qualify) who won't even qualify, Mali has minimal case of Ebola and are also in the quarantine process.

only 2 countries are expected to qualify from each group with one best lower, so far so good, All of the countries in top position to qualify are not in the ebola red zone.

honeric01:


I am sorry but you are joking.. which Spain contained Ebola? has the doctors recovered? any country with a recorded case and still in quarantine shouldn't be declared safe..

Even US are still in quarantine stage , yet soccer and basketball are being played weekly.

Same with Spain, if these countries haven't stopped stopping activities, why should Mali be different?

You have little knowledge on what you are talking about. Apart from Seria Leone who won't even qualify, the other 2 have minimal cases of Ebola and are also in the quarantine process.

only 2 countries are expected to qualify from each group with one best lower, so far so good, All of the countries in top position to qualify are not in the ebola red zone.

Spain has only 3 cases of Ebola right now,so it isn't a problem to them whereas countries like seirra Leone,Guinea and Liberia are filled with Ebola patients,so what are you saying?These 3 countries might qualify even if they don't qualify,their citizens will like to watch the AFCON life.Morroco did the right thing beacuse it won't be easy to check the temperature of all the fans!

mikeson12:


Spain has only 3 cases of Ebola right now,so it isn't a problem to them whereas countries like seirra Leone,Guinea and Liberia are filled with Ebola patients,so what are you saying?These 3 countries might qualify even if they don't qualify,their citizens will like to watch the AFCON life.Morroco did the right thing beacuse it won't be easy to check the temperature of all the fans!

And what stops Morroco from stopping these people from the affected countries from entering Morroco? are they not stopping people already? what is going to be different?


Here are the list of Ebola case:

Country Cases Death Date
Liberia 6,619 2,766 4 November 2014
Sierra Sierra 4,862 1,130 4 November 2014
Guinea 1,760 1,054 3 November 2014
Nigeria 20 8 outbreak ended 20 October 2014
United United 4 1 4 November 2014
Mali 1 1 4 November 2014
Senegal 1 0 outbreak ended 17 October 2014
Spain 1 0 4 November 2014
Total 13,268 4,960 as of 4 November 2014

honeric01:


And what stops Morroco from stopping these people from the affected countries from entering Morroco? are they not stopping people already? what is going to be different?


Here are the list of Ebola case:

mbers. [3] [4]
Country Cases Death
s
Date
Liberia Liberia 6,619 2,766 4 November 2014 [2]
Sierra Sierra
Leone
4,862 1,130 4 November 2014 [2]
Guinea Guinea 1,760 1,054 3 November 2014 [2]
Nigeria Nigeria 20 8 outbreak ended 20 October
2014 [2]
United United
States
4 1 4 November 2014 [2]
Mali Mali 1 1 4 November 2014 [2]
Senegal Senegal 1 0 outbreak ended 17 October
2014 [5]
Spain Spain 1 0 4 November 2014 [2]
Total 13,
268
4,960 as of 4 November 2014 [2]

Lol,Morrocco doesn't have the rigt to ban spectators from coming to watch the match,its a CAF event so only CAF can do it.


Lol,I don't know what you want to acheive by those records you just posted,if there is someone that needs the record of ebola outbreak its definitely you cos you'v been confused from the very beginning.

@Honeric..... Don't mind this yeye mikeson, the club world cup is holding in december and I 'm sure Real Madrid will bring a larger fans than what any other african country can afford to take to Morroco. Why can't Morroco resist playing the tournament in their country and the reported case of ebola in madrid and the number of pple in quarantine. Real Madrid is still playing in Santigo Bernabeu even with the ebola fear, even the El Classico that generate the number of largest crowd in spain took place. Morroco is only being partial, let them not hold the other competition and face FIFA's ban. I hope CAF give them a lengthy suspension like 2O to 25 years

crownprince102:
@Honeric..... Don't mind this yeye mikeson, the club world cup is holding in december and I 'm sure Real Madrid will bring a larger fans than what any other african country can afford to take to Morroco. Why can't Morroco resist playing the tournament in their country and the reported case of ebola in madrid and the number of pple in quarantine. Real Madrid is still playing in Santigo Bernabeu even with the ebola fear, even the El Classico that generate the number of largest crowd in spain took place. Morroco is only being partial, let them not hold the other competition and face FIFA's ban. I hope CAF give them a lengthy suspension like 2O to 25 years

So you are now comparing Morocco a third world country to Spain a western European country, are u for real?
You should note that Morocco was not forced to host afcon, as they bidded for it and won it so their concerns have to be taken seriously. Even south Africa that CAF was confident would replace Morocco on short notice has ruled itself out.
The thing is Africans inter travel and when you have all that amount of people descending on your country, you need to be scared.
Firstly, an ebola infested country doesn't have to qualify for citizens of that country to come and secondly, a senegalese who got infected while in guinea can bring it. It's complicated. The truth it's only logical to assume the risk of is higher from hosting a tournament exclusively for Africans.

mikeson12:
Why is CAF priortizing the Cup Of Nations above the health and well being of Africans?Mek them no even try carry the tournament come Nigeria.

Same reason why that retarded iidiot call Hayatou has been president for close to 3 decades - money.

arsetalks:
Same reason why that retarded iidiot call Hayatou has been president for close to 3 decades - money.

Yea,you are ryt,

yoji:

So you are now comparing Morocco a third world country to Spain a western European country, are u for real?
You should note that Morocco was not forced to host afcon, as they bidded for it and won it so their concerns have to be taken seriously. Even south Africa that CAF was confident would replace Morocco on short notice has ruled itself out.
The thing is Africans inter travel and when you have all that amount of people descending on your country, you need to be scared.
Firstly, an ebola infested country doesn't have to qualify for citizens of that country to come and secondly, a senegalese who got infected while in guinea can bring it. It's complicated. The truth it's only logical to assume the risk of is higher from hosting a tournament exclusively for Africans.

You said it all. Even George Weah supported Morocco on this one. The tournament should be postponed to 2016 when the outbreak ought to be over or atleast minimal. Africa has the largest infected people so we should be more careful about hosting an all African event that a World event just because Spain has a FEW case of ebola

mikeson12:




Lol,Morrocco doesn't have the rigt to ban spectators from coming to watch the match,its a CAF event so only CAF can do it.


Lol,I don't know what you want to acheive by those records you just posted,if there is someone that needs the record of ebola outbreak its definitely you cos you'v been confused from the very beginning.

I am wasting my time, posted the record to show you countries battling with ebola, yet football matches still go on in their countries..

Since Morocco can't ban the kind of fans coming into the country, then Ebola can still get into the country when they host the Club world cup.

Cant you see you are contradicting yourself? can't people from ebola infested countries come to morocco to watch the club world cup?

I decided to stop wasting my time with you not until this last post.

yoji:

So you are now comparing Morocco a third world country to Spain a western European country, are u for real?
You should note that Morocco was not forced to host afcon, as they bidded for it and won it so their concerns have to be taken seriously. Even south Africa that CAF was confident would replace Morocco on short notice has ruled itself out.
The thing is Africans inter travel and when you have all that amount of people descending on your country, you need to be scared.
Firstly, an ebola infested country doesn't have to qualify for citizens of that country to come and secondly, a senegalese who got infected while in guinea can bring it. It's complicated. The truth it's only logical to assume the risk of is higher from hosting a tournament exclusively for Africans.

And because Spain is a western European country, this automatically stops ebola patients from coming to watch club world cup? And can you say only people from the countries playing at the club world cup are likely to visit Morocco for the tourney?

emperorchedda:
You said it all. Even George Weah supported Morocco on this one. The tournament should be postponed to 2016 when the outbreak ought to be over or atleast minimal. Africa has the largest infected people so we should be more careful about hosting an all African event that a World event just because Spain has a FEW case of ebola

Because George Weah supported it makes the decision automatically right? i am not against them rejecting to host, i am against contradiction, if you dont want to host a tournament that is likely to bring in crowd, why host the club world cup?

honeric01:


I am wasting my time, posted the record to show you countries battling with ebola, yet football matches still go on in their countries..

Since Morocco can't ban the kind of fans coming into the country, then Ebola can still get into the country when they host the Club world cup.

Cant you see you are contradicting yourself? can't people from ebola infested countries come to morocco to watch the club world cup?

I decided to stop wasting my time with you not until this last post.

Don't be silly.The Ebola in those countries are already under control,apart from Spain which has only 3 cases,the others are free from ebola.In Africa,ebola has already spread through Liberia,guinea and seirra Leone.One in every 50 Liberians are ebola patients.

mikeson12:



Don't be silly.The Ebola in those countries are already under control,apart from Spain which has only 3 cases,the others are free from ebola.In Africa,ebola has already spread through Liberia,guinea and seirra Leone.One in every 50 Liberians are ebola patients.

Comprehension!

How is Morroco going to stop ebola infested patients from coming to watch the club world cup?

yoji:

So you are now comparing Morocco a third world country to Spain a western European country, are u for real?
You should note that Morocco was not forced to host afcon, as they bidded for it and won it so their concerns have to be taken seriously. Even south Africa that CAF was confident would replace Morocco on short notice has ruled itself out.
The thing is Africans inter travel and when you have all that amount of people descending on your country, you need to be scared.
Firstly, an ebola infested country doesn't have to qualify for citizens of that country to come and secondly, a senegalese who got infected while in guinea can bring it. It's complicated. The truth it's only logical to assume the risk of is higher from hosting a tournament exclusively for Africans.

You are very funny and unrealistic, Spain is a first world country and couldn't contain Ebola which third world country like Nigeria and Senegal has done successfully. They are western European country and couldn't find out how ebola set into their country. Spain has not recorded one case of Ebola survivor, we 've recorded more than 10 here in Nigeria a third world country. Ebola that infect a liberian is the same with the one that infect a spanish, Ebola knows not ur tribe, race or nationality. I 'm not saying Afcon should hold but I 'm only saying If club world cup is holding, why can't Afcon hold, this is a racist act from our african brothers. Madrid has Ebola cases, yet they are coming, or are u telling me Guineans and Liberians has been deprived of buying CWC ticket. Both tournament has the same probability let's be realistic and stop ur weird and partial thinking. Wise up

Honeric Baba...

honeric01:


Comprehension!

How is Morroco going to stop ebola infested patients from coming to watch the club world cup?

Which patients if I may ask?Spain the only country with Ebola on that list has 3 cases only which has been contained unlike Liberia and co that has thousands of cases.

mikeson12:


Which patients if I may ask?Spain the only country with Ebola on that list has 3 cases only which has been contained unlike Liberia and co that has thousands of cases.

Choi, comprehension issue ooo

Is the club world cup not going to attract people from all parts of the world? if yes, wouldn't random people with or without ebola come into Morroco to watch the games?

honeric01:


Choi, comprehension issue ooo

Is the club world cup not going to attract people from all parts of the world? if yes, wouldn't random people with or without ebola come into Morroco to watch the games?

What concerns a Liberian with the club world cup?