Tanzania’s Eng. Hersi Ally Said has been elected the first chairman of the African Clubs Association (ACA).

Said, also President of Tanzania Premier League giants Young Africans SC was elected on Thursday during the official launch of the new body held at the Marriot Mena House in Cairo, Egypt.

”  I appreciate the effort by the President of the Confederation of African Football Patrice Motsepe to have this body African Clubs Association. It is a platform which will help us try to find solutions to problems affecting us as Clubs, ” said Said.

Jessica Motaung who is also an official of Kaizer Chiefs FC in the South African Premier League was elected first Vice chairperson, while Akwa United FC’s (Nigeria) Paul Bassey is the second Vice chairman. The new body also had 15 Board members with it’s headquarters to be established in Nairobi, Kenya.

Among some of the objectives of the African Clubs Association include; to protect and promote the interest of African Football Clubs, to ensure that African Football Clubs are commercially viable, globally competitive and profitable, to ensure that referees, match  commissioners and VAR operators are respected, to build partnerships with sponsors, the private sector and Governments to build stadiums that comply with CAF and FIFA standards and other football infrastructure and facilities in each of the 54 CAF Member Associations among others.

Besides the different Club chairmen from around Africa, the launch of the new body was also attended by CAF President Dr. Patrice Motsepe, CAF third and fourth Vice Presidents Souleiman Hassan Waberi and Seidou Mbombo Njoya respectively. The CAF general secretary Veron Mosengo-Omba also attended.

_{The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Dr. Patrice Motsepe has urged CECAFA members to work together to bring about football development in the region and Africa as a whole.}

_{Dr. Motsepe said this on Thursday during his meeting with the executive committee members of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) and stakeholders at the headquarters in Mengo.}

_{“Keep together in the CECAFA region. The success of African football depends in the success of each of the members in the continent,” added Dr. Motsepe who arrived in Uganda on Thursday for a two day official visit.}

_{On behalf of CECAFA, the President who is also the President of the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF), Wallace Karia thanked Dr. Motsepe for sparing time to visit some CECAFA members including Uganda.}

_{“We thank the CAF President for visiting members in the region. We shall work hard as CECAFA to make sure that we bring about football development,” said Karia.}

_{Dr. Motsepe also thanked the government of Uganda for the support they continue to give football in the country. He made it clear that the good results of Ugandan football speaks a lot about the good leadership of the Federation under Moses Hassim Magogo, also an executive Committee member of CAF.}

_{Magogo, the FUFA President thanked the CAF President for visiting Uganda. Dr. Motsepe and some members of the FUFA executive were  expected to meet the Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Anita Annet Among and the Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni later on Friday.}

_{Dr. Motsepe who started his visit to Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda will today travel to Seychelles and later Algeria.}

The Serengeti Girls of Tanzania have been placed in Group D of the  FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022.

In the draw conducted in Zurich by FIFA on Friday, Tanzania are placed alongside Japan, Canada and France.

Tanzania ejected Cameroon 5-1 on aggregate to qualify for their first ever World Cup at any football level.

Besides Tanzania, the other two African teams Morocco and Nigeria will also battle in the tournament slated for October 11-30^th in India.

Bakari Shime, The Tanzania head coach told Cecafaonline that they will prepare to face any team that they have been drawn against. “I know we have what it takes to put up a good show in India,” added Shime.

Apart from France who lifted the U-17 Women’s World Cup trophy in 2012, the other teams placed with Tanzania have not won the trophy before.

Spain are the reigning champions. North Korea are the only team that have lifted the trophy twice, while South Korea and Japan have also lifted the trophy once.

Group A: India, USA, Morocco, Brazil

Group B: Germany, Nigeria, Chile, New Zealand

Group C: Spain, Colombia, Mexico, China

Group D: Japan, Tanzania, Canada, France

The two representatives from the CECAFA Zone Uganda and Tanzania have today been drawn in the qualifiers of the Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations 2022.

Uganda Sand Cranes have been drawn to face Comoros, while Tanzania will battle Malawi.

According to CAF, the first leg of the qualifiers will be played between July 22nd-24th and the return legs August 5-7^th.  Uganda and Tanzania will play their first leg matches away from home.

The winners of the qualifier matches over two legs will qualify for the Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations slated for October 21-30^th in Maputo, Mozambique.

Fourteen teams including Cameroon, Comoros, Cote D’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Tanzania, and Uganda are already fired up to battle for seven places in the 2022 Beach Soccer African Cup of Nations finals.

Uganda and Tanzania also played in the Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations 2021 held in Senegal. The Uganda Sand Cranes finished 4^th in the 2021.

Full draw

Seychelles vs Madagascar

Comoros vs Uganda

Malawi vs Tanzania

Libya vs Nigeria

Cote D’Ivoire vs Morocco

Cameroon vs Senegal

Ghana vs Egypt