Ghana’s opening game against Burkina Faso at the 2019 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Niger has been called off due to problems with the floodlights at the venue.

The Group B match was scheduled to take place in the city of Maradi on Sunday evening but organisers reported to the teams that there was a fault with the lighting system.

This means visibility will be poor when the match kicks off at 19:30 pm local time.

 

UPDATE:
The U-20 Football Team, Black Satellites' opening game against Burkina Faso this evening (Sunday 3rd February 2019) in the ongoing CAF Africa Youth Championship has been called off due to floodlights issues.

New Date would be communicated soon.

— Min. of Youth & Sports GH (@MOYSGh) February 3, 2019

This resulted in the decision by the organisers to call off the match and ponder alternative plans for the match to take place.

The decision is also likely to affect the first match of the group as Senegal were scheduled to take on Mali at 16:30.

With the weather severely hot during the day, organisers decided to fix matches for the evening but with floodlight problems now popping up the matches could be rescheduled for the afternoons.

The tournament got underway on Saturday with host nation Niger sharing the spoils with South Africa and Nigeria beating Burundi 2-0. 

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