{"id":439303,"date":"2017-11-20T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/20\/nyantakyi-heads-caf-committee-to-help-africas-2018-world-cup-reps\/"},"modified":"2017-11-20T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T22:00:31","slug":"nyantakyi-heads-caf-committee-to-help-africas-2018-world-cup-reps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/20\/nyantakyi-heads-caf-committee-to-help-africas-2018-world-cup-reps\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyantakyi heads CAF committee to help Africa\u2019s 2018 World Cup reps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Monday, 20 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-11-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/56641594.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi Sign\" title=\"Kwesi Nyantakyi Sign\" width=\"295\" height=\"187\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kwesi Nyantakyi is President of the Ghana Football Association<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151057539911396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151057539911396\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1511215231_776_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">First Vice President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Kwesi Nyantakyi will preside over a committee to be set up by the continent\u2019s football-governing body to fashion out some help for its 2018 World Cup qualifiers. <\/p>\n<p>The establishment of the committee is one of the decisions taken by Caf\u2019s Executive Committee at its meeting held last Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The committee will hold its first meeting on Friday, December 1 on the sidelines of the 2018 FIFA World Cup draw.<\/p>\n<p>The move is to ensure that Nigeria, Egypt, Senegal, Morocco and Tunisia do well at the global showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>As per a request from the five qualifiers, Caf has postponed indefinitely qualifiers for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations scheduled to have been played in March, 2018, a couple of months before the world cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CAF Secretariat will be responsible for proposing an amended schedule accordingly subject to the approval of the Executive Committee,\u201d a statement on Monday said. <\/p>\n<p>The Nyantakyi-led committee will have as members Kalusha Bwalya, a Caf Executive Committee member, and all FA presidents of the qualified nations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Monday, 20 November 2017 Source: 3news.com 2017-11-20 Kwesi Nyantakyi is President of the Ghana Football Association First Vice President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Kwesi Nyantakyi will preside over a committee to be set up by the continent\u2019s football-governing body to fashion out some help for its 2018 World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":406257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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