/ 9 March 1999

ZIM 2000 HEARING

AFRICAN soccer chiefs will reconsider their decision to take the 2000 Nations Cup away from Zimbabwe at a meeting in Guinea on March 15. A five-member Zimbabwean delegation met Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou in Ghana at the weekend before the African youth championship final. Hayatou said the CAF executive committee will review its decision taken in February when stadiums and financial targets were not met. Egypt, Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria are possible replacements. The deadline for entries is March 10, with the hosts expected to be named five days later in Conakry.

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