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Does it mean African refs will no longer be afraid of giving Cam players well-deserved red cards? Will they stop getting fake PK calls?

bamedagoat, be very afraid

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TheYrmster
The suggestion is not new. It has been suggested by European clubs for ages.

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Bigpokey,

I doubt that the idea of watering down is compelling. After all the national leagues and FA Cups occur annually. Are those watered down?

For me the test of Ahmad's changes are not going to be in the media but in the financial books of CAF down the road and also in the cooperation of the climate during the competition. Those will be the tests.

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How will every 4 years change any of it?

It will just make CAF poorer!

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I remember very well every minute of that game where Phillip Omondi and Godfrey Kisitu scored and I was in the goal posts." -Paul Ssali

There was rain at matches of CAN held in January. The majority of African leagues play throughout June including Nigeria. The sponsorship with TOTAL already put more money in the coffers. I'm not sure about expansion to 24 teams except it is based primarily on TV revenue.

Be honest, you will still find AFCON boring every 4 years.
I bet you would rather see ManU play LA Galaxy in summer.

Teams like Zimbabwe have benefited a lot from having CHAN and AFCON at the current frequency.

But I know you, like most on CE, don't care about such things. It's the EPL that comes first.

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"Our semi-final victory against Nigeria (won 2-1) in the 1978 AFCON tournament in Kumasi is one of the best games I will remember for the rest of my life.
I remember very well every minute of that game where Phillip Omondi and Godfrey Kisitu scored and I was in the goal posts." -Paul Ssali

Whose business? CAF? Hell, no!
EPL, UEFA and their player's agents? Yes!

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I remember very well every minute of that game where Phillip Omondi and Godfrey Kisitu scored and I was in the goal posts." -Paul Ssali

I still think the tournament should be every 2 years. They can scrap the CHAN.

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Chief I am not an EPL zealot at all. Only games I watch are those between top teams and occasionally arsenal and others. At most I will watch 15 EPL games per season and then CL games again involving top teams. I am not going to watch Zenith vs Galatasaray

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CHAN is the defacto AFCON. Without FIFA support & UEFA cooperation CAN is nothing with majority of our top players euro-based. CAF is not an island upon itself.

Folem,

The issue is about probability of rain. There is more likelihood of rain in the summer in subsaharan Africa than there is in January. No one claims 0 chance of January rain and thus pointing to rain in the recent CAN does not deny the weather difference between January/February and the summer months in much of the Sub sahara. Ofcourse, African leagues play through June but they deal with the fact that more games are likely to be postponed in the summer. Check games that are put off until Monday in the NPFL during those months, if you follow the league closely as many of us do. Nevertheless, you should be familiar with the weather if you have lived in Nigeria. Perhaps, you are not? In any case, hope you are reading about the rains and floods in Lagos in the past few days. How many times do those occur in January? That is the issue.

Yes, the sponsorship from Total has brought in funds but will CAF depend on that or hope to outstrip that? The idea is that with frequent competition, CAF has more opportunities to attract other sponsors. The CAN is the flagship event and is CAF's cash cow. If Ahmad works hard, he can surely compensate on this issue by finding higher level sponsorship under a 4-year cycle but that is yet to be done and thus the jury is still out on that.

Actually, I like the increase to 24 teams as it will generate more interest across the continent and may be used to get more funds from sponsors since, theoretically, it increases the audience reach of the tournament but that has to be seen as actually occurring.

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"theYemster", you did not address the "raining season" issue which many West African nations (Nigeria for example) deal with in the months of June, July and some parts of August

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And the BIBLE says: The race is NOT for the swift, neither is the battle for the strong nor ... but time and chance makes them all.
Ecclesiastes 1:18: For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

... and that is what I am thinking as well. The opportunities to generate fund through commercials, deals and sponsorship will occur in every four years as well instead of every two. Let's wait and see, perhaps it will work out well, else I do not see how these changes will benefit us.

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And the BIBLE says: The race is NOT for the swift, neither is the battle for the strong nor ... but time and chance makes them all.
Ecclesiastes 1:18: For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

... and that is too bad. They help to kill our games (leagues), praises the Oybo leagues with every little opportunity they might have, turn around and complain of how bad ours are in comparison to other leagues in the world

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And the BIBLE says: The race is NOT for the swift, neither is the battle for the strong nor ... but time and chance makes them all.
Ecclesiastes 1:18: For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

I didn't even know that fool hiyatou have been ousted as the caf President ..

Keep it every two years ...but move it to summer ...it will keep African countries to develop facilities faster

The South American Championship is held every 2 years and they only have 10 federations to deal with. Footy will suffer in the small countries if we do not have AFCON every 2 years. A lot of tiny islands/countries will end up playing 2 qualifiers every 4 years as opposed to the same every 2 years. As it is, they are not competitive in the continental club cups either. What will they be left with? Sunday, Sunday footy?
The regional championships are crap other than the organization of the Southern African regional cup. Does WAFU even exist any longer? I have never heard of Cameroon being involved in a regional championship. I could be wrong.
Perhaps, a middle ground will be to have the AFCON every 4 years and CHAN in between. The AFCON winner can play in the Confederation cup which will probably be scrapped in the future. It will work in the favor of the smaller countries but Nigeria and Cameroon are going to be F....

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no body is asking this, how will ghana ever win the AFCON with 24 teams?

They won it last with only 4-8 teams participating .. since it became 12, then 16.. they always fall short

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I said that earlier!!!

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CONMEBOL reverted to 4 years interval immediately FIFA proposed it.

Agreed. Copa is every 4 years but CAF needs more regular footy. We barely play friendly games as it is. UEFA are encouraging more participation across the board but this will kill African footy. We do not have the infrastructure and regional footy is not it.

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You need to understand the genesis of restructuring the football calendar. It has been on since Havelange era but only got finalised during Blatter era. There was a need to have a harmonised calendar. With the calendar everybody gets regular footy.

Yes that's when the argument with Yujam started. And besides the only thing the European clubs suggested was moving the AFCON to the summer. The move to odd years was one I had suggested.

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