{"id":736299,"date":"2022-01-05T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/cameroons-afcon-games-to-be-played-with-80-per-cent-capacity-crowd\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:48:10","slug":"cameroons-afcon-games-to-be-played-with-80-per-cent-capacity-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/cameroons-afcon-games-to-be-played-with-80-per-cent-capacity-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon&#8217;s Afcon games to be played with 80 per cent capacity crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"384\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/afcon-2021-fb-1050-696x384.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"afcon-2021-fb-1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Stadiums at this month\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon will have their capacity capped at 80 per cent for the host\u2019s matches due to the coronavirus pandemic, the African Football Federation said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Other fixtures in the competition starting on January 9 and finishing on February 6 will only be played in front of 60 per cent of the ground\u2019s capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s opening match between Cameroon and Burkina Faso will be played at the 60\u00a0000-seater Olembe Stadium\u00a0in Yaounde.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter many consultations with the Cameroonian government, in light of the evolution of the health crisis and the challenges imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Afcon and the local organising committee have agreed an upper limit of between 60 per cent-80 per cent for the capacity of stadiums in the Africa Cup of Nations,\u201d CAF (African Football Federation) said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Strict coronavirus regulations have already been put in place for the tournament, postponed from last year due to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Spectators must be vaccinated and present a negative test before being granted entry into matches.<\/p>\n<p>Many sides have been impacted by infections, including Nigeria who will be without Napoli striker Victor Osimhen and Gambia who have had to pull out of two pre-Afcon (African Cup of Nations) friendlies.<\/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=\"72UtzZ_FCSI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam News on Adom TV (5-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/72UtzZ_FCSI?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>Stadiums at this month\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon will have their capacity capped at 80 per cent for the host\u2019s matches due to the coronavirus pandemic, the African Football Federation said Tuesday. Other fixtures in the competition starting on January 9 and finishing on February 6 will only be played in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,171,76,77,78,79,80],"class_list":["post-736299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-cameroons","tag-capacity","tag-crowd","tag-games","tag-played"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}