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Nigeria May Stage 2018 WAFU Cup After Successful Ghana Relaunch

By SCORENigeria
Sports News Nigeria May Stage 2018 WAFU Cup After Successful Ghana Relaunch
SEP 26, 2017 LISTEN

SCORENigeria has again scooped that there are strong indications Nigeria will stage next year's WAFU Cup of Nations after the successful relaunch of the sub-regional tournament in Ghana.

Nigeria have staged this annual competition in 2008 and 2009 during which time the likes of Ahmed Musa and Gbolahan Salami came to the fore.

An insider simply told SCORENigeria: 'Some of the top organisers are now looking favourably at Nigeria hosting the WAFU Cup next year.

'This year's competition has been a huge success with great attendances, superb organisation and huge media visibility.

'And to think of it, the organisers told me they had only four months to put everything together.'

However, teams at this year's tournament have complained of the match scheduling, saying the matches are too close and that has affected their performances.

The timing of the competition as well as a squad of 18 players were also some talking points by the teams.

It has been suggested that the competition be staged at the end of the leagues of the various WAFU countries, while the squads be increased to at least 21 to allow for the teams to have more players available for selection.

It would be recalled that Niger had to hurriedly draft a third goalkeeper for their semi-final against Ghana after injury ruled out their first choice for the rest of the competition and the second goalkeeper was sent off in a final group game.

Thanks to new sponsors FOX Sports TV, the WAFU Cup champions will pocket $100,000, while the beaten finalists are entitled to $50,000.

Credit: ScoreNigeria

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