July’s African football news in short

Guinea midfielder Amadou Diawara has joined Italian membership AS Roma from rivals Napoli on a five-yr deal for a price of US$23.8 million.

The 21-12 months-old is presently on worldwide duty with Guinea having performed all Syli Nationale’s three suits thus far at the continued Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

“We have been following Amadou for a while now,” Roma leader govt Guido Fienga advised the membership website.

“He is a player whose expertise has been clear to the ones in Italy for a number of years.”

“We’re pleased to welcome him to Roma, with the self belief that he can grow to be an essential participant for the membership.”

Diawara, who is also an Italian citizen dedicated his global future to Guinea final yr. He spent 3 seasons with Napoli and previously featured for some other Italian club, Bologna.

New Delhi: The uncertainty over the future roadmap of Indian football does no longer seem like it’ll get resolved anytime soon. On Wednesday, All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Praful Patel met with the agrieved I-League clubs in New Delhi to talk about the debate approximately Indian Super League (ISL) getting the pinnacle-division status and the destiny of the I-League and its golf equipment.

Not much is thought about the detailed discussion that came about within the assembly but AIFF president Patel stated to the media that he could be seeking three more years of parallel-going for walks league structure with Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to reach at a solution.

The I-League golf equipment, however, have asked for a 24-hour window to get lower back to AIFF about the “proposals” made in the assembly and most effective after discussing with their management, can be arrive at a conclusive idea.

“There has been numerous uncertainty round. Unfortunately this started out due to the fact in between there have been multiple months of election season and I became also a candidate for the FIFA council and there some problems cropped up. All I can say is that we’ve usually stated the I-League golf equipment as long-status, golf equipment like Mohun Bagan and East Bengal have a protracted history of Indian soccer. Other golf equipment have additionally started out contributing loads to Indian soccer. So no one desires to undermine and say that I-League clubs do now not have a good destiny. We additionally need the I-League golf equipment to have an excellent future.