Lubango — The four stadiums which are being built in the provinces of Luanda, Benguela, Cabinda and Huíla, which will host the 2010 African Cup of Nations (CAN) in football, will be handed over on 30 October and start to be inaugurated on national independence day, to be marked on 11 November.

This was said to the press on Saturday in Lubango City, in the southern Huíla Province, by the director for marketing and communication office of the Organising Committee of the African Cup of Nations (COCAN), Manuel Mariano, during the visit paid by the chairman of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Issa Hayatou, to Huíla Province.

Manuel Mariano said that this process will start on 11 November with the inauguration of Luanda stadium, and the other ones will be inaugurated sometime until December.

The official said that the support stadiums must be concluded by the end of September and they are expected to be handed over to the owner of the infrastructures (Ministry of Public Works) in the first week of October, to be also inaugurated between November and December.

Issa Hayatou, who paid a four-hour visit to Lubango City, leads a delegation of CAF, assessed the pace of the construction works of the stadiums and then he left for the central Benguela Province for the same purpose.