{"id":413792,"date":"2017-09-02T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/02\/ghana-ready-to-host-2017-wafu-nations-cup\/"},"modified":"2017-09-02T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T16:00:28","slug":"ghana-ready-to-host-2017-wafu-nations-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/02\/ghana-ready-to-host-2017-wafu-nations-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana ready to host 2017 WAFU Nations Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Saturday,  2 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-09-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/53530916.295.jpg\" alt=\"WAFU Nations Cup Logo 2017\" title=\"WAFU Nations Cup Logo 2017\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>WAFU Nations Cup logo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The 2017 WAFU Cup of Nations will be the fifth edition of the West African regional football tournament, set to be staged in Ghana from 9-24 September, featuring only locally-based players.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s tournament will see 16 teams from West Africa compete for the trophy, with a first round of knockout matches set-to-be followed by a group stage (two pools of four teams each), semifinals, third-place playoff and a final.<\/p>\n<p>This will also be the first tournament staged as part of a 12-year partnership between Fox Sports and the West African Football Union.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana, as both hosts and defending champions (they won the last tournament in 2013, also on home soil), will enter the 2017 edition as the favourites, though they face a potential banana skin in the first round against the Gambia.<\/p>\n<p>The other heavyweights in the tournament also pose a serious threat; teams such as Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast, are very strong contenders and the two-week tournament is set to see some upsets very early on.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea showed a lot of heart when they ousted Senegal in the recent qualifiers for the 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN) and will come to the tournament full of confidence and in good form.<\/p>\n<p>The same can be said of Mauritania and Burkina Faso, the surprise vanquishers of Mali and Ghana respectively in the 2018 CHAN preliminaries.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be a competition full of promising up-and-comers, with eyes on Ghana\u2019s Sadick Adams, Burkina attacker Mohamed Sylla, Mauritania\u2019s Abdoulaye Gaye and Sekou Amadou Camara of Guinea all hoping to catapult to stardom at the 2017 WAFU Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/96124592.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of <b>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/b> &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s leading football news website. 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