Issa Hayatou, who has been president of the Confederation of African Football since 1987, told CNN that several African countries could stage the four-yearly competition.
South Africa has already successfully hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2010, the first African nation to do so, and Hayatou believes it can put on the other contender for the title of the planet's biggest sporting event.
"South Africa can definitely organize the Olympic Games, with its infrastructure, hotels, communications, transport," he said Saturday.
"I don't know if there are 10 countries in Europe that can be better than South Africa in that respect.
"But there are other countries in Africa that can organize an Olympic Games like Morocco, Egypt, Algeria -- I could also include Nigeria. All those countries could organize it, but there's a prejudice -- they say, 'Oh, it's Africa, they can't organize it.' "
Go on, you tell them Issa Hayatou
Source : http://catchysports.blogspot.co.uk
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