2020 Total CHAN Draw Today Monday: Two Cameroonian former footballers Stephen Tataw and Salomon Olembe to assist in Draw
Confederation of African Football (CAF) conducts its draw for the final tournament of the Total African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Cameroon on Monday 17th February, 2020 at Palais Polyvalent des Sports de Yaoundé in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, at 19H00 local time (18H00 GMT).
Ahead of the draw, two former footballers of Cameroon Stephen Tataw and Salomon Olembe have been appointed by African’s football governing body to assist in conducting the draw on Monday.
They will assist CAF Director of Competitions, Samson Adamu to determine groupings for the final sixteen teams including African giants Dr Congo, defending champions Morocco and hosts Cameroon who all will fight to win this year’s CHAN tournament in Cameroon.
Tataw and Olembe will add some glamour to the event to be attended Cameroonian Minister of Sports and Physical Education, Narcisse Mouelle Kombi , CAF President Ahmad Ahmad, members of Local Organising Committee amongst others.
Tataw is unarguably one of the greatest Cameroonian players of all time. He was the captain of the famous ‘Class of 1990’ that made global headlines at the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy before painfully crashing out at the quarter finals, the farthest by an African team at the time.
The right back also captained the Lions at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the USA. The highlight of his career was winning the Africa Cup of Nations in 1988 in Morocco.
He played for local clubs Tonnere Yaounde and Olympic Mvolye before joining Tosu Future in 1995, becoming the first African to play in Japan. Tataw is now a staff of the Technical Directorate of the Cameroon Football Federation.
Olembe was a mainstay in the Indomitable Lions midfield between 1997 and 2007. His over 60 caps for Cameroon includes participation in two FIFA World Cups, France 1998 and Japan & Korea 2002. He was present at five Africa Cup of Nations, winning the title in 2000 and 2002 AFCONs. Currently, he serves as Team Manager of the Indomitable Lions.
The 16 qualified teams for the draw
Host – Cameroon
Central Zone – Congo, DR Congo
Central-East Zone – Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania
North Zone – Morocco, Libya
Southern Zone – Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
West ‘A’ Zone – Guinea, Mali
West ‘B’ Zone – Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo
The final tournament will be held from 4-25 April 2020 in the cities of Yaounde, Douala and Limbe.
