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African Soccer Leaders and Blatter Delay Depriving Libya of U-20 Soccer Tournament

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James M. Dorsey
Feb 25, 2011
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Depriving Libya of the right to host next month’s Under-20 African soccer championship amid widespread international condemnation of Col. Moammar Gadaffi’s brutal crackdown on protesters seeking to oust him after 41 years in office would seem a no-brainer.

That however is not the case in the minds of the executive committee of the Confederation of Africa…

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