Infantino Wants AFCON Move To Autumn

Infantino Wants AFCON Move To Autumn Sampson Adedeji As the debates on the 2021 African Cup of Nations continues, the president of the World soccer governing body, Gianni Infantino, has advised the Confederation of African Football to change the period of the future edition, BSNsports.com.ng can report Clubs across Europe has threatened not to release players for the 2021 edition due to the timing and the new variant of coronavirus. A high delegation meeting between CAF Executive and Infantino was held on Sunday on which to go about the 2021 AFCON. Infantino, late Monday held a press conference at the headquarter of the football body in Zurich, Switzerland where he advised to have the future tournament moved to autumn instead of Winter. " If we can streamline the schedule to ensure that a CAN can be played under a longer international window in the fall rather than January and February. I think we will have achieved something already important enough so that there is less disruption for many leagues which have players of African nationalities in their competitions," he said.