THE national football governing body, Ferwafa has confirmed they will send the U-17 to compete in this year's Cecafa U-20 Development Cup scheduled for August 14-28 in Asmara, Eritrea.
The U-17 team will be using this regional tournament as part of their preparation for next year's African U-17 championship which will be held in Kigali.
Ferwafa vice president Raoul Gisanura said recently that the friendly with Ghana on August 1 and the tournament in Asmara, the junior wasps will be good to go in the 2011 African Youth Championship in January on home soil.
"This will help the youth players to get used to competitions before they engage Africa's best teams who will converge in Kigali for the continental trophy," said Gisanura.
Besides hosts Eritrea and Rwanda, Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia and Zanzibar are also expected to compete in the Cecafa U-20 Development Cup.
Gisanura also confirmed that the U-17 team will head to Accra before the end of this month to play a build up match with their Ghanaian counterpart on August 1.
After Ghana, the junior wasps will also play against South Africa later this year in another high profile international friendly match.
In a related development, the new U-17 coach Richard Tardy is expected to arrive in the country today to sign a two-year contract with the ministry of sports.
Demonym Eritrean Government Provisional government
- President Isaias Afewerki
Independence
- From Italy November 1941
- From United Kingdom under UN Mandate 1951
- from Ethiopia de facto 24 May 1991
- From Ethiopia de jure 24 May 1993
Area
- Total 117,600 km2 (100th)
45,405 sq mi - Water (%) 0.14%
Population
- 2009 estimate 5,224,000[4] (109th)
- 2008 census 5,291,370
- Density 43.1/km2 (165th)
111.7/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2010 estimate
- Total $3.625 billion[5]
- Per capita $681[5]
GDP (nominal) 2010 estimate
- Total $2.117 billion[5]
- Per capita $397[5]
HDI (2007) steady 0.472 (low) (165th)
Currency Nakfa (ERN)
Time zone EAT (UTC+3)
- Summer (DST) not observed (UTC+3)
Drives on the right
ISO 3166 code ER
Internet TLD .er
Calling code 291
1 ,. National TV: Eritrea Television (ERI-TV)
Eritrea (play /ˌɛrɨˈtreɪ.ə/ or /ˌɛrɨˈtriːə/;[6] Ge'ez: ኤርትራ ʾErtrā, Arabic: إرتريا Iritrīyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeast and east of the country has an extensive coastline on the Red Sea, directly across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands are part of Eritrea. Eritrea's size is approximately 117,600 km2 (45,406 sq mi) with an estimated population of 6 million...
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