Africa-Press – Angola. Internet difficulties in the country could compromise the effective implementation of the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) new online club licensing platform.
Speaking at the end of the workshop about the platform, the president of the FAF, Artur Almeida e Silva, said he knew the conditions that each African country has and Angola does not escape the challenges related to the internet, a reality that needs to be accepted and lived with. .
“The internet challenge is national, in all provinces there are access difficulties. It is something we have to live with, try to resolve the situation in the near future, because it is not possible to hold international games without internet access”, he explained.
In view of this reality, he made it known that the governor of Huíla, Nuno Mahapi is aware of this and also spoke with some provinces that make the progression of internet services and believes that the situation will improve in the next few days.
Therefore, Artur Almeida e Silva considered that the seminar was essential to help the clubs that are in the municipalities or villages to access the platform, in order to minimize expenses with the movement of means and transport to the cities, in order to make the their registrations or licensing.
However, said Artur, taking advantage of the platform’s capabilities is absolutely necessary, in order to have an increasingly inclusive football.
The also president of the Council of Southern African Football Associations (COSAFA) stressed that the main objective is to ensure that licensing managers, presidents of associations, administrators at platform level can transmit knowledge so that it can be replicated and be an instrument that will make a difference in the development of football in the near future.
Through football, the source highlighted that humanism can be improved, the way of relating to people and transmitting knowledge, even with different languages.
On the issue of the internet, the head of Professional Football at CAF, Muhammad Sidat, said that the platform only needs a minimal connection to the network to function.
He recalled that for African competitions, the platform goes into operation Thursday, and goes until the day when the federations will be notified for their clubs to start the process of submitting all the information and documentation in the system to have their licenses approved for the season that will arrive in a few months.
“For national competitions, it will depend on what the sports calendar of each federation is, some are running and end in December, others that start in July to June may already be implemented”, he continued.
The training had guests from 14 federations with the aim of qualifying them to become users of the new online licensing platform for CAF clubs, a platform that comes as a mandatory system for clubs to use to participate not only in CAF competitions, but also national.
Angola hosted the fourth workshop, with the other three taking place in the countries of Tunisia, Benin and Tanzania, where CAF trained 54 federations over a period of four weeks.
The representatives of the federations, after training, made a tourist visit to Fenda da Tundavala and Cristo Rei. Their departure is scheduled for Thursday, June 1st.
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