“It is in this regard that the CAF Medical Committee in collaboration with the Technical & Development Department and a team of experts has put together a comprehensive plan to guide the Member Associations on the restart of football activities.” Sports
In a communiqué issued yesterday, CAF said the conditions were arrived at after series of meetings involving various arms of the body, including its Development Division, Medical Committee, Technical and Development Committee as well as Men and Women Elite Instructors.
The plan highlights effective and continuous medical assessment of players and officials, guidelines for training sessions, disinfection of sporting facilities, as well as strict adherence to the global preventive protocols. CAF also recommended that every member association should ban exchange of shirts; accept the use of five substitutes, drinking break 30 and 75 minutes and discourage spitting on the field; and ensure the federations have the means to guarantee the tests.
It warned that “this recommendation is not to encourage member associations and their professional clubs to resume, at all costs, the course of their competitions, men and women, women, while continuing prevail, to varying degrees around the world and across our continent, one of the most devastating pandemics of our time.
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