{"id":1215428,"date":"2022-10-03T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/03\/caf-re-opens-bids-for-afcon-2025-after-stripping-guinea\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:00:20","slug":"caf-re-opens-bids-for-afcon-2025-after-stripping-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/03\/caf-re-opens-bids-for-afcon-2025-after-stripping-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF re-opens bids for Afcon 2025 after stripping Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/111256335_afcon_trophy-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Guinea has lost the right to stage the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations owing to insufficient preparations\" title=\"Guinea has lost the right to stage the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations owing to insufficient preparations\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guinea has lost the right to stage the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations owing to insufficient preparations<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has reopened the bids for the hosting of 2025 Afcon after stripping Guinea of the rights.<\/p>\n<p>The rights withdrawal followed a meeting on Friday in Conakry between Guinea\u2019s interim president, Col. Mamady Doumbouya, and CAF President Patrice Motsepe.<\/p>\n<p>Motsepe cited the infrastructure and facilities in Guinea as not being ready to host a world-class Afcon competition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The CAF boss, who was accompanied by Caf General Secretary, Veron Mosengo-Omba said as quoted by CAF website: \u201cI visited Guinea today [Friday] out of respect to the people of Guinea to discuss CAF\u2019s willingness to advise and work together with the football stakeholders to construct and build football infrastructure and facilities in this country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will enable Guinea to bid with other competing Nations for the African Nations Championships (CHAN) which will take place after the Chan to be hosted by Algeria in 2023, in the light of the decision by CAF not to proceed with the 2025 Afcon in Guinea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following an Executive Committee meeting on Saturday, CAF has resolved to re-open the bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration Africaine de Football (\u201cCAF\u201d) Executive Committee (\u201cEXCO\u201d) met on Saturday 1 October 2022 in Algiers, Algeria and announced the re-opening of bids for the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations 2025,\u201d a statement by the football body read.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time a country has been stopped from hosting Afcon.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon were stripped of the right to host the 2019 tournament because they weren\u2019t considered ready but they were awarded the 2021 tournament \u2013 which took place earlier this year because of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"RSiHbQ2Xb30\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teenager in police grip for allegedly st@bbing okada rider to de@th with scissors (30-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RSiHbQ2Xb30?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea has lost the right to stage the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations owing to insufficient preparations The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has reopened the bids for the hosting of 2025 Afcon after stripping Guinea of the rights. 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