Nine CECAFA referees attend Total African Nations Championship preparatory course

Nine referees and assistant referees from the Council of East and central African Football Associations (CECAFA) were part of a 42-man group that completed a preparatory course ahead of the 2020 Total African Nations Championship. The four-day intensive training programme course took place February 4-8^th in Cairo, Egypt.

The 2020 CHAN tournament that will attract 16 teams will take place April 4-25th in Cameroon.

Besides the physical aspect, the course also focused on Video Assistant Referees (VAR), which will be applied at the quarter-final stage of the competition.

The Course was supervised by CAF Refereeing Director, Eddy Maillet and a team of experienced instructors including Jerome Damon (South Africa), Doue Noumandiez Desire (Cote d’Ivoire), Lim Kee Chong (Mauritius), Essam Abdel Fattah (Egypt), Mademba Mbacke and Mohamed Houssein Ali (Djibouti).

“The CHAN is a very important tournament and it is therefore important to have the referees in the best of conditions to give off their best. It is important that we have such a training course to give more experience to the referees regarding the usage of VAR,” said Maillet.

Referees and assistants from the CECAFA region who attended the course will now eagerly be waiting if they make the final list to officiate at the tournament, the sixth edition of the CHAN.

The referees from the CECAFa region who attended the course include; Mogoas Teklu Tsegay (Eritrea), Jean Claude Ishimwe (Rwanda), Georges Gatogato (Burundi), Mahmood Ali Mahmood Ismail (Sudan), Peter Waweru (Kenya) and Souleiman Ahmed Djama (Djibouti). The assistants include; Dick Okello (Uganda), Abdi Salah Mohamed (Djibouti) and Somalia’s Abdi Hamza.