Opposed to Mali on Sunday (kick off at 7 p.m. in universal time, i.e. 8 p.m. in France) in the final of the CHAN 2020 at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaoundé, Morocco has been talked about a lot in the Cameroonian press in the last hours. At issue: the refusal of the title holders to stay in the La Falaise hotel, in the heart of Yaoundé, chosen by the Local Organizing Committee (COL), they who preferred to opt for the more modest Relaxe hotel, located in the locality of Nkometou about twenty kilometers from the capital.
Present at a press conference the day before the match, Moroccan coach Houcine Ammouta justified this choice. “We decided to change hotels, to go to a small hotel, simply to limit the conditions of COVID-19 contamination. We have seen that the DR Congo has suffered a lot from this. We are in an average, but very clean hotel where we meet every 5 minutes. Unlike La Falaise where there is a lot of movement. I think we made the right choice to stay together in a small hotel“, Put forward the technician.
For its part, the LOC took this choice badly and the tournament director, Michel Dissake Mbarga, provided through a press release that the “COL declines all responsibility for any incident that may occur to the Moroccan delegation in the face of non-compliance with the accommodation plan validated by CAF». Ambiance…
