{"id":7464,"date":"2019-01-08T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T11:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2019-01-08T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T11:57:26","slug":"egypt-to-host-2019-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/08\/egypt-to-host-2019-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt to Host 2019 AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nConfederation of African Football (CAF) has announced that Egypt will host the\n2019 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Egypt\nbeat South Africa, the only other nation to submit, in a vote held at a CAF Executive\nCommittee meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original\nhost nation Cameroon was stripped of staging the tournament in November because\nof slow preparations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Egypt,\nwhich will host the tournament for a fifth time, has just six months to prepare\nfor the expanded 24-team finals, which kick off in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CAF\nhas since offered Cameroon the chance to stage the finals in two years&#8217; time,\nwhich has meant that the original hosts for both the 2021 and 2023 finals have\nbeen asked to delay their tournaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CAF\nhad originally planned to name the new hosts on Wednesday 9 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced that Egypt will host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. Egypt beat South Africa, the only other nation to submit, in a vote held at a CAF Executive Committee meeting. Original host nation Cameroon was stripped of staging the tournament in November because of slow preparations. Egypt, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":7466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7467,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions\/7467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}