CAF president Ahmad Ahmad believes that the African teams have what it takes to perform well in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
“I don’t like predictions in football because it regards playing well on the pitch. CAF helped all African teams preparing for the World Cup either financially to get new equipment to help them preparing as we gave each team 500,000 US$ from CAF, and we urged FIFA to give every qualified team 2 million US$,” he told CAFonline.
He took the reign of CAF after eliminating Issa Hayatou with all federations and down to players and fans remaining hopeful that a wind of change would sweep through the continent. Much of that change is still being awaited.