FIFA U-17 and U-20 Women’s World Cup 2020 cancelled
FIFA has announced that the FIFA U-17 and U-20 Women’s World Cup 2020 has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The world Football governing body made the announcement in a letter sent to it member Associations through CAF on Monday, December 21, 2020.
The letter read: “We regret to inform you that due to the worldwide situation that was strongly affected by the COVID 19 as well as the difficulties all confederations are facing to complete the qualifiers phase, FIFA decided to cancel both the U-17 & U-20 Women’s World Cups -2020. Consequently, the phases of all the continental qualifiers are as well cancelled. All member associations affiliated to CAF are kindly requested to take note of the cancelation of all the matches of the qualifier’s phases of the above-mentioned competitions”.
Ghana’s junior female national teams, Black Maidens (U-17) and Black Princesses (U-20) have been preparing for these tournaments. The teams broke camp in October following a temporal suspension of the qualifiers.
By Mahama Shaibu
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