U-17 Women’s World Cup Qualifiers: CAF Postpones Competition

The third training session of the national women’s U-17 team that was supposed to run from October 16 to November 1, 2020 has been postponed to a later date. This comes after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the world football governing body, FIFA, decided to postpone the final of the 2021 African U17 Women's World Cup. CAF had previously set a schedule for hosting the final African qualifying round in October and November. The development came to the position of FIFA due to the increasing number of Covid-19 cases worldwide, especially the host country India, which is the second most affected country worldwide with 7,546,882 cases.

Actually, the U-17 Lionesses were supposed to play against Uganda in the away leg of the last round qualifier for the 2021 Wor...