The Confederation of African Football (Caf) congress meeting in Lagos, Nigeria approved Rwanda as the host of the U-17 championship in 2011.

The Caf Executive Committee under the chairmanship of Issa Hayatou had taken decision to award Rwanda the hosting rights earlier on over the weekend during the confederation’s extra ordinary executive committee meeting in Cairo.

During the just concluded African Youth Championship in Kigali, Hayatou said that he was impressed with the way Rwanda hosted the biennial event and called on Rwanda to start preparation to host the next edition of the U-17 championship.

"We are happy with the organization and management of this year’s U-20 Championship and we are coming in two year’s time for the Caf U-17 tournament whatsoever,” Hayatou said and hailed whoever was involved in the preparation of this tournament including Sports Ministry, Cocan, Ferwafa and Rwandans at large.

Hayatou was in Rwanda for the whole duration of the two weeks that the tournament ran.

Ghana won the Africa Youth Championship after beating giants Cameroon 2-0 in the final.

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