The Warriors die-hard supporter and 2019 Total AFCON final superfan, Alvin Aluvah Zhakata who travelled from Cape to Cairo by road has been invited to watch the AFCON final, free of charge.
CAF president, Ahmad Ahmad, said that Aluvah’ expenses will be paid for by the football association. In addition to attending the final in the VVIP section, CAF has offered to pay for Aluvah’s flight home Osasu Obayiuwana a British Nigerian BBC journalist spoke to Ahmad.
Obayiuwana later announced that CAF marketing Man, Abdel Bah would take the expenses on behalf of the CAF president. Obayiuwana said:
And @AlvinZhakata is a very happy man, after @CAF_Online’s marketing man, Abdel Bah, is taking his #AFCON2019final match ticket and flight ticket (back home to Zimbabwe) matters in hand, on behalf of @AHMADCAF2017…
The development was also confirmed by Mimi Fawaz, a BBC journalist after she interviewed Zhakata in Cairo.
Thank U @AlvinZhakata for coming on BBC ‘Focus on Africa.’ Spoke about his road trip from Cape Town 🇿🇦 to Cairo 🇪🇬 to watch AFCON. Took 50 days to get here. Passionate, African football fan ⚽️ CAF President Ahmad has now invited him to be VVIP on Friday @BBCAfrica
#afcon2019 pic.twitter.com/NtheSzTmtQ— Mimi Fawaz (@MimosaFawaz) July 16, 2019
Aluvha was however unfortunate as he could not watch even a single Warriors match. He was delayed on the road and would arrive in Egypt after the Warriors had embarrassingly crashed out of the tournament.