Why CAF Rejects Moshood Abiola Stadium For World Cup Qualifier

  Why CAF Rejects Moshood Abiola Stadium For World Cup Qualifier   By Niyi Busari The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has rejected the newly renovated Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja for Flamingos of Nigeria versus Congo DR in their  Women's African World Cup qualifier scheduled for March 2022.   This is contained in a letter signed by CAF Licensing Senior Manager, Muhammad Sidat and sent to the Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Sanusi Mohammed, which reads in parts; "Reference to the match of the African qualifiers FIFA U17 WWC India 2022 NIGERIA vs CONGO DR scheduled for the 19th of March 2022, we noted that your association has selected and inserted on CAF CMS the MKO Abiola Stadium as the venue to host the match in question.   "Nonetheless, please note that unfortunately, the selection of MKO Abiola, Stadium to host the aforementioned match cannot be approved by CAF, since this exact stadium will be used by NFF for its match against Ghana around the same period for the Playoff round of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifiers. Therefore, in order to preserve the status of the pitch and to allow proper preparation and operational matters of the Nigeria v Ghana match, no matches should be scheduled in the same stadium.   "In this sense, the NFF is requested to select an alternative venue to host your African qualifiers FIFA U17 WWC India 2022 NIGERIA vs CONGO DR."