Footballs for young Africans
Thursday, February 8, 2007
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UEFA is helping its sister confederation CAF by providing 81,000 footballs for African youngsters.
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Distributed to schools
The balls are being manufactured in Africa using local material and will be distributed to schools in all countries in the territory covered by the confederation, with each national association receiving 1,000 or 2,000 footballs depending on the size of the country.
First beneficiaries
The first beneficiaries are Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Sudan.
Click here for CAF's official website.
Click here to read the FIFA website's article on CAF's 50th birthday.
