Rabat- The African Football Federation (CAF) rejects Morocco’s request to postpone the upcoming African Cup of Nations (CAN) scheduled to be held in Morocco early next year.
In a communique released on Saturday, the CAF said that the CAN 2015 will be held as scheduled, adding that since the first edition in 1957, "the Africa Cup of Nations has never witnessed a deferral or a change in schedule."
The communique went to add that CAF will examine the Moroccan request at the upcoming meeting of its Executive Committee due to be held on November 2 in Algiers, on sidelines of the second leg of the 2014 CAF Champions League final.
On Friday the Moroccan Football Federation said in communique that it has asked the CAF to postpone the upcoming CAN 2015 because of the spread of Ebola in several Sub-Saharan African countries.