Issa Hayatou criticises CAF president Ahmad for Cameroon comments

Former Confederation of African Football president, Cameroon's 71 year
old Issa Hayatou has criticised his successor, Ahmad Ahmad of
Madagascar for comments he made about his country's preparations for
the 2019 African Cup of Nations.

The CAF president on a visit to Burkina Faso last week had cast down
on Cameroon's ability to host the continent's showpiece event. This
followed reports that the Central Africa country are behind schedule
in her preparation to upgrade stadia, hotel, training and other
related infrastructure for the tournament.

But Issa Hayatou who was ousted by Ahmad after 29 years at the helm,
has come out strong to defend his country's level of preparations.

"Cameroon already has five stadiums, not to mention the ones which are
in the process of being built. Nobody can say that Cameroon has done
nothing. We're ahead of schedule." he said in an interview with French
radio station RFI

"We have two years to go, you cannot judge Cameroon's ability to
organise the CAN two years off" he concluded

The next round of CAF inspection to ascertain the level of Cameroon's
preparedness would be from August 20-28.

Cameroon's level of preparation were of huge concern to the last team
of inspectors, and this was before the tournament took a new turn
following its increase from 16-24 teams starting from the 2019
edition.

With the tournament now scheduled to take place between June-July
2019, Cameroon would believe they have enough time to meet CAF's
deadline.