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Newly-elected South Africa Football Association vice-president Ria Ledwaba has declared country's readiness to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

 Ledwaba said this during the SAFA celebratory Press Conference on June 13th at the SAFA House following their qualification to the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations.

She further stated that SAFA would hold a meeting with Sports Minister, Tokozile Xasa when the football body president, Danny Jordaan returns from the FIFA World Cup currently taking place in Russia.

“We made a decision in our last NEC [National Executive Committee] meeting that we should bid for the 2023 Women’s World Cup‚" she said.

"But we know that we must get government on board before we even start planning. Government must give us the green light and guarantees.

“The plan is that when the president returns from the World Cup we will meet with the Sports Minister to present our idea. There’s no reason that people would doubt that we can do it because we did it in 2010.”

She also challenged Banyana Banyana to reach the final of this year's AWCON in Ghana, which will secure their place at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.

“Banyana have made us proud by qualifying for Afcon. We challenge the team to at least reach the Afcon final to guarantee their berth in the World Women’s League‚’’ Ledwaba noted.



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