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https://www.thomascook.com/holidays/wea ... rica/june/kendo wrote:Maybe becuase of the weather. Rainy season. We can't have them playing in the rain.Coach wrote: Is there any reason why AfCON can't be a summer spectacle?
Regional competitions and friendlies.Enugu II wrote:Ohenhen1ohenhen1 wrote:1. CAF has 56 members
2. First round of qualifiers to get the teams down to 48.
3. First 24 teams according to FiFA rankings are seeded.
4. A draw is done to match teams in a first round 2 legged tie.
5. Create two groups of 12 teams for the 2nd round. Pots created based on FIFA ranking and region. To make sure each Group have a balance. For example not too many North or West African sides in one pot over the next.
6. First 4 teams in each group get an automatic ticket to the world cup. The 5th place teams in each group will play a playoff to determine the 9th team to represent Africa.
7. The 24 teams that take part in WC qualifications, automatically qualify for AFCON.
The benefit is Africa will be better prepared if we play more games. Scrap AFCON qualifiers and the CHAN tournament.
That is about 24 games for Nigeria over a 4 year period. We would play about 6 to 8 World cup qualifiers a year.
FIFA International match calendar
September - 1 game and 1 friendly
October- 1 game and 1 friendly
November - 2 games
March- 2 games
early June- 3 games
It will force teams to build depth. Teams with different styles of play will play each other. We can have Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt in one group. Teams that never get to play Nigeria, will get a chance.
It sounds good if your Nigerian but you need to address a major concern that CAF has I. E. How do the eliminated teams including the first 8 eliminated teams stay busy? Remember, that was the reason for current format as well as for the CHAN. CAF also has a responsibility to develop those weaker teams.
That is the way we have been doing it for decades. AFrican players that are good still succeed in Europe.Eaglezbeak wrote:Explain how playing a major tournament in February is better for African players when the best players in the continent don’t even stay in Africa because their leagues are not strong enough and are only professional by name?ohenhen1 wrote:It was a major mistake to move it in the first place. Africa should do what is best for Africa not Europe. June is raining season for most African countries. AFC hold their tournament in January. AFCON should be held once every 4 years, not 2 years.Eaglezbeak wrote:But we rely on European clubs to buy our players but yet you want to take players out mid season on a World Cup year?Football is a business in Europe so if that’s what you want expect to see your favourite Nigerian players on the bench after February with a World Cup around the corner!ohenhen1 wrote:Also move AFCON back to February. Have it once every 4 years, same year as the WC.
Below see current weather in Africa July (Summer),North to South not much rain!If anything we need to invest in flood lights for cool evening kickoffs!
https://m.accuweather.com/en/africa-weather
https://www.thomascook.com/holidays/wea ... rica/june/
Above average African weather in June!
Doing things for decades with no reward on the international level is a clear sign that a change is needed,playing a tournament the same year as the World Cup didn't do much as teams that qualified where better off playing friendlies against quality teams from other continents,Africa's best players where taken away from their clubs which made clubs think twice about signing them and as I've proved the weather was never a problem.African leagues are not up to standard even those North of the Sahara are below par despite more investment,our very own NFA don't own their own academy and no specific football only stadia with green and white seating with their crest on the front door so it's clear what ever money they make is not going towards bettering themselves,so how is being stubborn and doing what they've done for decades isn't going improve anything despite ample oppotunities to do better?ohenhen1 wrote:That is the way we have been doing it for decades. AFrican players that are good still succeed in Europe.Eaglezbeak wrote:Explain how playing a major tournament in February is better for African players when the best players in the continent don’t even stay in Africa because their leagues are not strong enough and are only professional by name?ohenhen1 wrote:It was a major mistake to move it in the first place. Africa should do what is best for Africa not Europe. June is raining season for most African countries. AFC hold their tournament in January. AFCON should be held once every 4 years, not 2 years.Eaglezbeak wrote:But we rely on European clubs to buy our players but yet you want to take players out mid season on a World Cup year?Football is a business in Europe so if that’s what you want expect to see your favourite Nigerian players on the bench after February with a World Cup around the corner!ohenhen1 wrote:Also move AFCON back to February. Have it once every 4 years, same year as the WC.
Below see current weather in Africa July (Summer),North to South not much rain!If anything we need to invest in flood lights for cool evening kickoffs!
https://m.accuweather.com/en/africa-weather
https://www.thomascook.com/holidays/wea ... rica/june/
Above average African weather in June!
Afcon will be held once every 4 years instead of 2.
We have to do what is best for Africa not Europe.
European countries do what is best for them. Why should Africans not do the same. You have various anti African policies like the EPL home grown policy and the strict requirements to get a work permit in the UK. You have various countries having quotas on the amont of foreign players they can sign.
You think moving the Afcon to June and not in the same year as the world cup will actually improve things?Eaglezbeak wrote:Doing things for decades with no reward on the international level is a clear sign that a change is needed,playing a tournament the same year as the World Cup didn't do much as teams that qualified where better off playing friendlies against quality teams from other continents,Africa's best players where taken away from their clubs which made clubs think twice about signing them and as I've proved the weather was never a problem.African leagues are not up to standard even those North of the Sahara are below par despite more investment,our very own NFA don't own their own academy and no specific football only stadia with green and white seating with their crest on the front door so it's clear what ever money they make is not going towards bettering themselves,so how is being stubborn and doing what they've done for decades isn't going improve anything despite ample oppotunities to do better?ohenhen1 wrote:That is the way we have been doing it for decades. AFrican players that are good still succeed in Europe.Eaglezbeak wrote:Explain how playing a major tournament in February is better for African players when the best players in the continent don’t even stay in Africa because their leagues are not strong enough and are only professional by name?ohenhen1 wrote:It was a major mistake to move it in the first place. Africa should do what is best for Africa not Europe. June is raining season for most African countries. AFC hold their tournament in January. AFCON should be held once every 4 years, not 2 years.Eaglezbeak wrote:But we rely on European clubs to buy our players but yet you want to take players out mid season on a World Cup year?Football is a business in Europe so if that’s what you want expect to see your favourite Nigerian players on the bench after February with a World Cup around the corner!ohenhen1 wrote:Also move AFCON back to February. Have it once every 4 years, same year as the WC.
Below see current weather in Africa July (Summer),North to South not much rain!If anything we need to invest in flood lights for cool evening kickoffs!
https://m.accuweather.com/en/africa-weather
https://www.thomascook.com/holidays/wea ... rica/june/
Above average African weather in June!
Afcon will be held once every 4 years instead of 2.
We have to do what is best for Africa not Europe.
European countries do what is best for them. Why should Africans not do the same. You have various anti African policies like the EPL home grown policy and the strict requirements to get a work permit in the UK. You have various countries having quotas on the amont of foreign players they can sign.
Nigeria won the first African Nations Cup in the modern era that wasn't in a World Cup year then qualified out of a World Cup group the following year and so did Algeria (qualify out of a group) so why complain about changing the tournament to June when we are yet to see the impact?Until Africans have decent leagues in each region there's no point in complaining about something we simply don't invest in like I've said the NFA have never invested in their own academy or own a football specific stadium you don't get something for nothing it's more than luck nothing is a given in this world so you must try hard to take it and organisation in Africa isn't geared towards success at the moment,let's revisit your claim after the next two AFCONS.ohenhen1 wrote:You think moving the Afcon to June and not in the same year as the world cup will actually improve things?Eaglezbeak wrote:Doing things for decades with no reward on the international level is a clear sign that a change is needed,playing a tournament the same year as the World Cup didn't do much as teams that qualified where better off playing friendlies against quality teams from other continents,Africa's best players where taken away from their clubs which made clubs think twice about signing them and as I've proved the weather was never a problem.African leagues are not up to standard even those North of the Sahara are below par despite more investment,our very own NFA don't own their own academy and no specific football only stadia with green and white seating with their crest on the front door so it's clear what ever money they make is not going towards bettering themselves,so how is being stubborn and doing what they've done for decades isn't going improve anything despite ample oppotunities to do better?ohenhen1 wrote:That is the way we have been doing it for decades. AFrican players that are good still succeed in Europe.Eaglezbeak wrote:Explain how playing a major tournament in February is better for African players when the best players in the continent don’t even stay in Africa because their leagues are not strong enough and are only professional by name?ohenhen1 wrote:It was a major mistake to move it in the first place. Africa should do what is best for Africa not Europe. June is raining season for most African countries. AFC hold their tournament in January. AFCON should be held once every 4 years, not 2 years.Eaglezbeak wrote:But we rely on European clubs to buy our players but yet you want to take players out mid season on a World Cup year?Football is a business in Europe so if that’s what you want expect to see your favourite Nigerian players on the bench after February with a World Cup around the corner!ohenhen1 wrote:Also move AFCON back to February. Have it once every 4 years, same year as the WC.
Below see current weather in Africa July (Summer),North to South not much rain!If anything we need to invest in flood lights for cool evening kickoffs!
https://m.accuweather.com/en/africa-weather
https://www.thomascook.com/holidays/wea ... rica/june/
Above average African weather in June!
Afcon will be held once every 4 years instead of 2.
We have to do what is best for Africa not Europe.
European countries do what is best for them. Why should Africans not do the same. You have various anti African policies like the EPL home grown policy and the strict requirements to get a work permit in the UK. You have various countries having quotas on the amont of foreign players they can sign.
It will improve things for Europeans maybe. Africans that are good still got into the best clubs when the Afcon was held in February.
This world cup is the worst performance for Africa since the 80's. The first time in decades we didn't have Afcon in the same year as the World cup.
Then where good to go but we aren’t hosting an AFCON for a while.Coach wrote:@Eagles, surely all grounds (in Nigeria for instance) have floodlights.
dude there are only 10 countriesThe YeyeMan wrote:I'd like to see Africa adopt a qualification process like South America's.
Dude, you'd have qualifiers to eliminate teams before the league format.Bigpokey24 wrote:dude there are only 10 countriesThe YeyeMan wrote:I'd like to see Africa adopt a qualification process like South America's.
YeyemanThe YeyeMan wrote:Dude, you'd have qualifiers to eliminate teams before the league format.Bigpokey24 wrote:dude there are only 10 countriesThe YeyeMan wrote:I'd like to see Africa adopt a qualification process like South America's.
Ohenhen1,ohenhen1 wrote:The current system is not preparing the teams well enough for the World cup. You have weak groups that allow weak teams to go to the world cup. You then have groups like Nigeria group that leads to the elimination of teams like Cameroon.
Weather is. It is raining in most part of West, Central and East Africa. You have rains also in some part of South Africa! Only North Africa will be able to host tournaments of such magnitude successfully during that period.Eaglezbeak wrote:https://www.thomascook.com/holidays/wea ... rica/june/kendo wrote:Maybe becuase of the weather. Rainy season. We can't have them playing in the rain.Coach wrote: Is there any reason why AfCON can't be a summer spectacle?
The weather isn’t a problem maybe we need to invest in floodlights and generators for evening kickoffs and a cooler climate.