CECAFA
Kenya, Burundi storm Cecafa U-15 Challenge Cup semis
The Kenyan youngsters have booked a place in the semi finals at the 2019 Cecafa U-15 Challenge Cup after a hard fought 2-1 win over hosts Eritrea on Thursday.
Victory sent Kenya to 10 points on the log, while Burundi who have seven points and play their last group game against Sudan on Saturday have also made it to the knock out stage.
Star player Kevin Wangaya Injehu put Kenya in the lead after 26 minutes with a clever dribble past the Eritrean goalkeeper before he slotted the ball in the net.
But the Eritrean team cheered on by the home fans later controlled the game and had several shots stopped by Kenya’s in-form goalkeeper Alvin Odari Lwangu. Eritrea’s Temesgen Tesfay had hit shot hit the wood work before the interval.
In the second half Eritrea stepped up their game before Ahmed Awad leveled matters with a well timed header past Kenya’s advancing goalkeeper. The Stadium went wild after Eritrea’s goal with over 8,000 fans all chanting.
Kenya’s Gil Harel was later rushed to hospital in an ambulance after a collision with an Eritrean player. With two minutes to full time Kenya’s substitute Ibrahim Mone Mwaro netted the winning goal with a rebounding shot. The Kenyan technical bench all run in the field after the final whistle as the home fans walked out in disappointment.
“This has been a tough match and great experience for my boys because they have never played in-front of such a big crowd,” said Kenya’s coach Sagar Lakhani.
Eritrea’s head coach Mekonen Zewde said his team lost because of some mistakes especially in the midfield. “But the boys tried to play good football,” he added.
On Friday Tanzania will face Rwanda, while Uganda take on South Sudan in Group B matches.
Group A standing
P W D L GF GA A Pts
Kenya 4 3 1 0 10 3 7 10
Burundi 3 3 1 0 5 3 2 7
Eritrea 3 1 0 2 8 4 4 3
Somalia 3 1 0 2 4 5 -1 3
Sudan 3 0 0 3 0 12 -12 0
AFCON U-20 QUALIFIERS
Ethiopia edge Djibouti in build-up ahead of AFCON U-20 qualifiers
Ethiopia’s U-20 side defeated Djibouti 2-0 in an international friendly match played at the Abebe Bikila Stadium on Monday.
The two teams used the match to prepare ahead of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) U-20 CECAFA qualifiers slated for October 6-20th in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Nathael Solomon gave the hosts the lead after 43 minutes, and Degfie Alemu made it 2-0 three minutes into the second half.
The Djibouti team tried to push ahead to find some goal but failed to beat the Ethiopian defending line.
The Zonal qualifiers will kick start with a Group A match between Sudan and Djibouti at the Azam Complex, while hosts Tanzania will battle Kenya in a Group A match at the KMC Stadium the same day.
The 2022 runners-up South Sudan will open their Group B campaign against Burundi at the KMC Stadium, while reigning champions Uganda face Ethiopia in a match to be played at the Azam Complex all on October 7th. Tanzania will return to action on October 8th against Djibouti, the same day Sudan face Rwanda.
Nine teams will participate in the tournament with the best two teams qualifying to represent the Zone at the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations U-20 2025.
Group A: Tanzania, Sudan, Rwanda, Djibouti, Kenya
Group B: Uganda, South Sudan, Burundi, Ethiopia
CECAFA
VAR Training for CECAFA members starts in Tanzania
A VAR workshop organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for members in the CECAFA Zone has today started in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Wallace Karia, the CECAFA President today officially opened the workshop taking place at the Peacock Hotel.
“CAF is carrying out VAR training for all Zones now and this a very good development. This training is very timely for our Zone and we thank CAF for making this happen,” added Karia.
CAF Director of Referee Department Desire Noumandiez Doue is facilitating the workshop which has attracted members from 11 countries including Libya and ends on October 5th, 2024.
Ali Ahmed, the CECAFA Referees Manager called upon the participants to make good use of the workshop because CAF is determined to have as many referees as possible able to handle the VAR system.
The participants attending the workshop are coming from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Djibouti, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Libya and hosts Tanzania.
AFRICAN NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP
One extra slot for CECAFA Zone in TotalEnergies African Nations Championship 2025
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced that the CECAFA Zone will have four teams participating in the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2025.
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will host the competition slated for February 1-28th, 2025.
“The CECAFA Zone, which includes the three host countries, will receive an additional slot due to their automatic qualification as hosts. As a result, the total number of teams qualifying for the final tournament will be increased to 19 teams,” the African Football body announced on Thursday.
CAF also announced that the road to CHAN 2025 will start with the first round of qualifiers running October 25-27, 20224 and the return leg to be played November 1-3, 2024.
The second round of the qualifiers will be played between December 20-22 for the first round, and the return legs December 25-27.
Besides the CECAFA Zone that will have four teams, all the other Zones COSAFA, WAFU A, WAFU B, UNAF and UNIFFAC have been allocated three teams in the competition.
CHAN is a competition that consists of players playing in their respective national Leagues competitions.
Uganda has qualified six times from the seven Editions of the CHAN competitions that have been held since 2009. Rwanda have qualified four times, while Sudan and Ethiopia have each qualified for CHAN three times.
CECAFA
CECAFA will continue building capacity in the Zone, says Auka Gecheo
The Executive Director of the Council of East and Central Africa Football Association (CECAFA) has made it clear that the regional body will keep building capacity in different areas in their quest for more football development.
John Auka Gecheo was speaking during the opening of the General Coordinators Workshop at the Swiss Lenana Mount Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday.
“We wish to build capacity for General Coordinators’ expertise in our member Associations who will not only be resourceful to their Federations in Football development but also to CECAFA, CAF and FIFA,” said Gecheo.
The workshop is being facilitated by CAF Match General Coordinator and Instructor, Mazen Marzouk, and moderated by Baraka Kizuguto, the CECAFA Football Development Manager.
Marzouk made it clear that the Workshop is very important because it is in line with developing a new crop of General Coordinators in CECAFA region to meet CAF and FIFA international standards.
The workshop which started yesterday and ends on Thursday forms part of the CECAFA objectives in building capacity of football match officials involved in match organization.
Apart from Sudan, all the other CECAFA Member Associations Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Tanzania, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Rwanda and Zanzibar have sent two members to attend the Workshop.
Last month CECAFA also held Women’s Executive Leadership Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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