CAF President Dr. Motsepe advises African nations to treat football as a business

The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Dr. Patrice Motsepe has advised African nations to treat football as a business since it has got the potential of solving unemployment amongst the youths.

Dr. Motsepe said this on Monday during his visit to Botswana.

He made it clear during the sidelines of the Forbes Under-30 Summit in Gaborone that football needs to be looked at more seriously.

According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Africa is a young continent with almost 60 percent of its population, estimated at 1.3 billion, is under the age of 25 years and this has been projected to nearly double in size by 2050.

“Africa has 300 million young people between the ages of 15 and 25 years. We have to interact with them through various means,” said Dr. Motsepe.

He pointed out that football is not about the “wonderful sports we love on the soccer pitch” but the business and economic development, investments as well as partnerships.

“If you look at the most successful football nations, it turns to be the football nations that have got growing economies, private sector growing and doing well in investing in infrastructure,” he added.

After the visit to Botswana, the CAF President also traveled to Maputo, Mozambique where he launched the CAF African Schools Football Programme on Wednesday.