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The South African born President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Patrice Motsepe has announced that the African Cup of Nations (AFCON), will now be played every four years after the 2028 edition.
It was also revealed that there would be two consecutive editions in 2027 and 2028, with the next edition then to be held in 2032. It is obvious that Patrice Motsepe, who has been criticized by many in African football circles for allowing undue interference in African football from FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, is again succumbing to the demands of FIFA.
The cancellation of the African Nations Championship, a tournament that was instrumental to the development of local African talent, as well the movement of the flagship AFCON tournament, seems to be geared towards placating Infantino, probably the most corrupt FIFA president in history, and the broader agenda of a section of the global football community (the Gulf and so-called Arab States), as it relates to the newly installed FIFA Club World Cup (for which the AFCON was moved this year) and the FIFA Arab Cup, just concluded, merely days before the start of the AFCON.
The creation of an African Nations League, to be implemented on an annual basis from 2028, could prove to be both a financial and logistical conundrum as well. Infantino’s uncomfortably close association with Motsepe continues to cloud any decisions made by the African football governing body under Motsepe’s leadership.
The AFCON has been a staple of the African continent for generations and unlike his predecessors who resisted any attempts to compromise the integrity and standing of the biennial African football showpiece, Motsepe has consistently done just that, including moving this years AFCON from its June 2025 schedule to accommodate Infantino’s bloated World Club Cup tournament.
More to follow.
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