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The 2011 CAF U-23 Championship was the first edition of the football tournament for players under 23 years. It was originally scheduled to be hosted by Egypt from November 26 to December 10, 2011. However, less than two months prior to the start of the tournament, Egyptian authorities decided against hosting the competition because of security concerns.〔(Egypt denied from staging Olympic qualifiers ); FilGoal.com, October 10, 2011.〕 On October 13, 2011, Morocco was chosen as the replacement to host the tournament.〔(Morocco to host Olympic qualifying tournament ); BBC, October 13, 2011.〕 The tournament also doubles up as the qualifiers for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The top 3 placed teams qualified automatically for the 2012 Summer Olympics football tournament, while the 4th best placed team qualify for a play-off with an AFC counterpart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fifa.com/mensolympic/news/newsid=1497288/index.html )〕 ==Qualified teams== The Confederation of African Football chose to create a tournament and qualifying phase to decide which associations could represent Africa at the 2012 Olympic Games. Of CAF's 53 association nations, 39 agreed to participate in the qualifiers for the tournament. To qualify for the tournament, participating nations had to overcome three two-legged qualifying stages. Qualified teams: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2011 CAF U-23 Championship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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