{"id":16462,"date":"2018-12-03T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=16462"},"modified":"2018-12-03T10:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:53:38","slug":"south-africa-interested-hosting-2019-acon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/south-africa-interested-hosting-2019-acon\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa interested in hosting the 2019 ACON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>South Africa sports minister\u00a0<strong>\u00a0Tokozile Xasa revealed that her country are intterested in hosting the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>She said her country are willing to welcome host the competition and welcome other countries only if CAF asks them to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are indeed interested in taking over the hosting of the Afcon next year.We have all the infrastructure and stadiums to host this kind of event like we did in 2010 with the Fifa World Cup,\u201d she told the press on Saturday in Ghana after Banyana Banyana lost 4-3 on penalties to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yoast-link-suggestion__value\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/awcon-2018-nigeria-beat-south-africa-penalties-win-ninth-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AWCON 2018: Nigeria beat South Africa on penalties to win ninth title<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s up to Caf to approach us but as far as we are concerned we are ready to take over from Cameroon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that South Africa would not tender in a bid to host next year Africa Cup of Nations;&#8221;We won\u2019t bid for the hosting rights, Caf must come to us and we will consider hosting but we won\u2019t bid for the rights to host.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CAF earlier denied Cameroon the chance to host the competition. South Africa, Morocco and Egypt are the countries that stand a better chance of claiming the hosting rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa sports minister\u00a0\u00a0Tokozile Xasa revealed that her country are intterested in hosting the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. She said her country are willing to welcome host the competition and welcome other countries only if CAF asks them to. \u201cWe are indeed interested in taking over the hosting of the Afcon next year.We have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8417],"tags":[3949,251,252,254,662,5336],"class_list":{"0":"post-16462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-african-football","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-afcon","10":"tag-caf","11":"tag-cameroon","12":"tag-egypt","13":"tag-morocco","14":"tag-south-africa"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tokozile-Xasa.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-4hw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16441,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/awcon-2018-nigeria-beat-south-africa-penalties-win-ninth-title\/","url_meta":{"origin":16462,"position":0},"title":"AWCON 2018: Nigeria beat South Africa on penalties to win ninth title","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"December 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Nigeria Super Falcons have secured their ninth Africa Cup Of Nations title after beating South Africa's Banyana Banyana on Saturday at the Accra Sports stadium after a thrilling penalty shootout. 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