The Confédération Africaine de Soccer (CAF) is to organise the inaugural CAF U17 Ladies Built-in Soccer Event (GIFT), a pioneering pilot initiative to advertise the event of ladies’s soccer throughout Africa.
The historic occasion will happen on the Azam Advanced Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and brings collectively eight groups from CECAFA Member Associations (MAs) from 7-18 January 2025.
The event supplies a platform to showcase younger feminine footballers, construct participant capability and promote girls’s soccer at regional and continental ranges.
The competitors is a part of CAF’s technique to advertise gender equality and empower the following era of feminine footballers.
CAF has got down to enhance participation of women in soccer throughout the continent, encourage MAs and golf equipment to spend money on ladies’ soccer golf equipment, leagues and Below-17 girls’s nationwide groups, and supply a pathway for women to transition from faculties soccer to aggressive soccer constructions.
Eight golf equipment from the CECAFA area will compete:
Aigle Noir FC (Burundi) Bahir Dar Kenema FC (Ethiopia) Kenya Academy of Sports activities (Kenya) JKT Queens (Tanzania) TDS Ladies Academy (Tanzania) Boni Consilli Ladies Vocational Staff (Uganda) Metropolis Lights Soccer Academy (South Sudan) Hilaad FC (Somalia)
CAF is partnering with Azam TV and CAF TV (the official YouTube channel of the Confédération Africaine de Soccer) to offer dwell protection, accessible in all areas of the continent.
As well as, there will probably be a CAF D-License teaching course and a workshop for media representatives to be held on the sidelines of the event, with the goal of selling greatest practices in communications and media engagement.
Alongside the competitors, there will probably be neighborhood occasions equivalent to a ladies soccer pageant, sports activities clinics, and well being consciousness campaigns performed in partnership with UEFA. These initiatives goal to depart a long-lasting legacy for native communities in Tanzania.
Comply with all the most recent information from the CAF U17 Ladies Built-in Soccer Event (GIFT) on CAF’s official digital platforms utilizing the hashtag #U17GIFT2025.
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