{"id":3113,"date":"2022-01-21T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2022-01-21T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T19:58:23","slug":"decisions-yet-to-be-made-on-ivorian-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2022\/01\/21\/decisions-yet-to-be-made-on-ivorian-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Decisions yet to be made on Ivorian AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr-Patrice-Motsepe-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr-Patrice-Motsepe-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr-Patrice-Motsepe-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr-Patrice-Motsepe-768x1366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr-Patrice-Motsepe-863x1536.jpg 863w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr-Patrice-Motsepe-1151x2048.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr-Patrice-Motsepe-82x146.jpg 82w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr-Patrice-Motsepe-28x50.jpg 28w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr-Patrice-Motsepe-42x75.jpg 42w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dr-Patrice-Motsepe-scaled.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption>CAF Ptresident Dr Patrice Motsepe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Satish Sekar in Douala \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 21<sup>st<\/sup> 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date of AFCON 2023 has not been Decided<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Patrice Motsepe has quelled rumours that la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will take place in the summer of 2023. The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) responded to my question about when the 2023 AFCON should be played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are still discussions taking place,\u201d Dr Motsepe told reporters at the draw for the preliminary round of matches for AFCON 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are very clear that just a few days after the AFCON, the Secretary-General and some of our leaders will be going to C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire to start working immediately and make sure that, you know, the success we\u2019ve had here \u2026 Cameroon has made us proud. The people of Cameroon has made us proud and they continue to do well and our AFCON competition is world class.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Preliminary Ties<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa\u2019s 54 FAs will soon start the process of deciding which nations will contest the next AFCON Finals. The twelve nations that will contest the preliminary round will eliminate six nations. The remaining 48 members of CAF will then be separated into twelve groups with the top two from each group contesting the next AFCON in la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite their heroics in Cameroon in reaching the last 16 \u2013 they will play Guinea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eritrea v Botswana<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Princip\u00e9 v Mauritius<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Djibouti v South Sudan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Seychelles v Lesotho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somalia v eSwatini<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chad v the Gambia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The preliminary round ties will be played in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar in Douala \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 21st 2022) Date of AFCON 2023 has not been Decided Dr Patrice Motsepe has quelled rumours that<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[88,120,104,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3118,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}