Gabon will host the African Cup of Nations 2017

Five years later, the African Cup of Nations will be decided again in Gabon in 2017. After the successful co-organization of 2012 with Equatorial Guinea, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has renewed his confidence at gabonese leaders who welcomed the good news calmly. "I was very confident, said Daniel Cousin, former striker of Le Mans, became general manager of the gabonese selection. We proved that in terms of organization, we knew how. It remains a stage and a half to finish, we will be ready. It has everything to succeed a great African Cup".
Gabon's candidacy took the volume in recent weeks, taking advantage of some disgrace of his algerian rival. Strong of logistical support provided by the authorities (the delivery of twenty buses to transport delegations and teams) at the 2015 tournament in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon has also supported several major assets. Successful CAN in 2012, public support and loans or being renovated stadiums.
An official of the Gabonese Football Federation said the CAN 2017 would dispute in the four largest cities (Libreville, Franceville, Port-Gentil and Oyem in the north).
But by assigning the CAN 2017 in Gabon CAF bets on the peaceful environment that disrupts the country. Many strikes in the public service and teachers paralyze much of the territory. The drop in oil prices will also monitor the country with the very low level of black gold which he exporter.
CAF also focuses on the recovery of the gabonese football landscape. The national championship has indeed taken at the end of march after eight months off. Many non premiums paid to clubs were responsible for the interruption. The gabonese soccer so will resolve the multiple problems that plague before hosting the biggest sporting event in Africa.