{"id":26296,"date":"2020-06-30T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=26296"},"modified":"2020-06-30T13:10:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:10:57","slug":"afcon-2021-postponed-see-new-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/afcon-2021-postponed-see-new-date\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021 Postponed; see new date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AFCON 2021 Postponed; see new date<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>The Confederation of African Football CAF have postponed the 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/h3>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nThe competition that was supposed to take place in January\/February of 2021 has been postponed to January\/February of 2022 after the CAF excos met on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>CAF moved the competition to 2022 due to the Coronavirus pandemic that has affected football around the world.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2022 will take place in Cameroon.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFCON 2021 Postponed; see new date The Confederation of African Football CAF have postponed the 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations. The competition that was supposed to take place in January\/February of 2021 has been postponed to January\/February of 2022 after the CAF excos met on Tuesday. CAF moved the competition to 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26301,"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":[3949,11901,251,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-26296","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-afcon-2021","11":"tag-caf","12":"tag-cameroon"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1156677107.jpg.0.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-6Q8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30894,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/breaking-european-base-african-players-likely-to-miss-afcon\/","url_meta":{"origin":26296,"position":0},"title":"BREAKING: European Base African Players likely to miss AFCON","author":"Selasi Fiawoyi","date":"December 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"European Club Association (ECA) has made their intentions of not releasing African Players for Januarys AFCON The Association wrote \u00a0to CAF through FIFA that they have no plans of releasing their African players for next month's AFCON in Cameroon due to lack of clear preventive measures against COVID-19. 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