NAIROBI, Kenya – Hukumar kwallon kafa ta Afirka (Caf) ta yanke shawarar jinkirta gasar cin kofin nahiyar Afirka ta 2024 (CHAN) zuwa watan Agusta 2025, bayan da aka yi nazarin matsayin abubuwan more rayuwa a kasashen da za su dauki bakuncin gasar, wadanda suka hada da Kenya, Uganda, da Tanzania.
Shugaban hukumar kwallon kafa ta Kenya, Hussein Mohammed, ya bayyana cewa jinkirin da aka yi zai ba kasarsa damar inganta abubuwan more rayuwa da kuma shirye-shiryen da suka shafi gasar. “Mun samu lokaci don inganta abubuwan more rayuwa da kuma shirye-shiryen da suka shafi gasar,” in ji Mohammed.
Hersy Said, shugaban kungiyar Yanga ta Tanzania, ya ce jinkirin ya yi kyau domin zai ba kungiyoyin kwallon kafa na cikin gida damar kammala gasar su kafin fara CHAN. “Yana da kyau cewa an jinkirta gasar zuwa Agusta, hakan zai ba mu damar kammala gasar cikin gida a lokacin da ya kamata,” in ji Said.
Kenneth Muguna, dan wasan tsakiya na Kenya, ya ce jinkirin zai ba tawagarsa damar yin shiri sosai. “Yana ba mu damar yin shiri sosai kuma mu tabbatar da cewa mun shirya sosai don gasar,” in ji Muguna.
Gasar CHAN, wacce aka fara gudanarwa a shekarar 2009, an kafa ta ne domin ba wa ‘yan wasan da ke buga kwallo a kasashen Afirka damar shiga gasa, saboda yawancin ‘yan wasan manyan kungiyoyin nahiyar suna buga kwallo a kasashen waje, musamman a Turai.
Zaben rukunin gasar ya gudana a Nairobi a ranar 15 ga Janairu, inda Kenya ta fada rukuni daya tare da Morocco, Angola, DR Congo, da Zambia. Tanzania ta fada rukuni na biyu tare da Madagascar, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, da Central African Republic. Uganda kuma ta fada rukuni na uku tare da Niger, Guinea, da wasu kungiyoyin da za su fito daga zagayen share fage.
Gasar CHAN ta 2024 za ta kasance ta farko da za a gudanar a gabashin Afirka tun bayan da Rwanda ta dauki bakuncin gasar a shekarar 2016.
