A lengthen in protecting Wafcon will once more lift questions on Caf’s constancy to the ladies’s sport – for the reason that the 2020 version used to be restrained as a result of the coronavirus pandemic year the lads’s 2021 match used to be simply abeyance.

Deciding when to secure the 12-team 2024 Wafcon finals used to be difficult via the truth that report nine-time winners Nigeria and Zambia might be collaborating within the Paris Olympics this July and August.

Talking ahead of the announcement via Caf used to be made, Nigeria world Want Oparanozie informed BBC Game Africa {that a} lengthen would poised the ladies’s sport in Africa again.

“Not having this tournament when we should have it is going to take us maybe 10 steps backward,” the ahead mentioned.

“When it comes to women’s football, we’re still trying to get to where we need to be.

“I think, first of all, it’s [a] lack of prioritising women’s football in Africa, because you can’t tell me it’s the same thing when it comes to the men.”

Qualifying for the 2024 Wafcon used to be finished terminating December, because of this avid gamers and coaches may have waited over 18 months for the finals via the moment the match begins.

Previous this presen Desiree Ellis, tutor of reigning ladies’s continental champions South Africa, used to be essential of Caf’s dealing with of the status.

“If it (Wafcon) is postponed or cancelled, it will be a huge, huge disappointment,” the 61-year-old informed BBC Game Africa.

Caf president Motsepe mentioned he used to be “impressed” via the expansion of ladies’s soccer at the continent.

“I am expecting the Wafcon Morocco 2024 to be immensely successful,” he added.