Ethiopian Football Federation did not submit bidding documents to the CAF’s General Secretariat for staging the 2018 CHAN, Juneidi Basha, the federation’s boss has confirmed.
Basha, who was speaking to a local radio station this evening made it clear that they do not know how the Africa’s football governing body drafted them in the list of three.
“Wed didn’t send the bidding documents, we don’t know where CAF got that from,” Basha equivocally said.
At the end of deadline Saturday, CAF announced Morocco, Ethiopia and Equatorial Guinea FAs as the ones that had expressed interest to host the continental showpiece reserved for home-based players.
EFF will not officially deny this as they believe it is an “advertisement for them.”
The federation has openly expressed interest in hosting the 2025 AFCON.
CHAN 2018 was initially scheduled for Kenya but the CAF’s Executive Committee sitting in Accra, Ghana stripped her off the rights on 23rd September for lack of preparedness.
In particular, the supreme decision making organ found Kenya to be lagging behind in terms of putting in place the stadiums critical for staging such a showpiece.
They also took issue with the volatile political situation in the country following the forthcoming fresh presidential election on 26th October.
