The
Confederation of African Football (CAF) has nominated GFF 1st Vice President
Alh Bakary K Jammeh as the preferred Match Commissioner to the 3rd Place Play
off between South Africa and Ghana in the Total U-23 Africa Cup of Nations in
Egypt scheduled for Friday 22nd November, 2019 at the Cairo International
Stadium.
This
will be Mr Jammeh’s third major assignment as Match Commissioner in CAF’s third
highest flagship tournament and will be at the center of a very important third
place play off final where South Africa and Ghana are both finalists to the
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Jammeh
as the administrative head of the said match has a full contingent of CAF Match
officials including Uganda FA General Secretary Edgar Watsu as Technical Study
Group expert while veteran Egyptian journalist Inaz Mazhar serves as venue
Media Officer, Adulcinio Isaac from Angola and Rufin Tolojara from Madagascar
as Security Officers. Mr Jammeh’s scheduled has amongst other Officials Boubou
Traore of Mali as Central Referee and Moustafa Saloui from Morocco as General
Coordinator.
Hosts
Egypt and Ivory Coast reached to the final after edging out South Africa and
Ghana at the Semi Finals of the tournament. All the four countries have booked
slots to the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.
Mr
Jammeh was amongst officials at CAF that made the decision to shift the Semi
Finals from the Al Salam Stadium to the Cairo International Stadium where the
tournament final would be staged. Jammeh is increasingly earning himself a
distinguished status at CAF when he
entered into the ranks of Committee membership at the CAF Youth categories.
