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while West Africa’s talent pool is overcrowded.
5. The result: Quality at U17 AFCON is diluted.
West African players lose international exposure.
Footballing reality is sacrificed for political balance.
Solution!!
Award extra slots based on past performance.
No more Zonal qualifications.
Still keep baseline representation for development, but don’t punish excellence.
CAF’s zonal qualifiers protect weak regions and handicap Africa’s strongest football breeding ground- West Africa
to “balance” representation. Each zone (WAFU A, WAFU B, COSAFA, CECAFA, UNAF, UNIFFAC) gets fixed slots, regardless of strength.
4. Politics play a role too.
Motsepe, from South Africa, pushed this system – which guarantees COSAFA exposure –
nations – gets the same number of slots.
2. This means countries that have produced all of Africa’s U17 World Cup titles (Nigeria, Ghana, Mali) can miss out, while far less competitive teams qualify just because of geography.
3. Why did CAF introduced zonal qualifiers?
CAF’s Regional Qualifiers are killing West African football at youth level 🧵
1. At the CAF U17 AFCON, West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin, etc.) all fight for one or two spots. Meanwhile, COSAFA (Southern Africa) – made up mostly of weaker football
Let’s keep lying to ourselves and keep blaming someone else every time we fail. We’re not good enough that’s the bitter truth. It’s what you have the coach will work with period. And we don’t have what it takes to compete on the bigger stage.
And we keep lying to ourselves.
🔵🔴🎞️ Leo Messi: “I had the intention of returning to Barcelona and being able to go back to a place I always wanted to be, but it was NOT possible again”.
"After that, it became a family decision. The fact that we won the World Cup also had a big impact. I was clear that I didn’t want to be at another team in Europe, I didn’t want to go to any of them”.