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[Gasty4]

@Igehhh, winning the previous African Cup of Nations won't put them at the top of the chart.... I'm not certain,but then don't think that's the best way they can get up there,they have to be solid from defense to attack, a huge load there you see.......a good example is Belgium .

Nigerians are no where near it, they're not ready what's and where's the motivation ?  Not with them present government ? Chuckles!!!

A good example Salima Mukansanga has shown out to other feminine genders, she's had several officiating also at junior world Cup (female)

[darxiaomi]

I dont know how this can end because of:
1) Its football, anything can pass.
2) Missing players for Covid

After say this, i think the more balanced team are the "arabs" teams like Morocco , Algeria, Egypt and maybe Senegal.

So the champion for me its between these four teams.

[D-law]

One good introduction I love in the Afcon is the introduction of VAR!!
Ain't this the first time such a technology is gon be used in the Afcon ? A great improvement and addition once more.
Should be nineteen to twenty hours to the first Afcon game... Anticipating already

[logfiles]

We only have rainy and dry seasons in Africa, and both are suitable for football games, but we will not modify our calendar to accommodate some of our players who are playing elsewhere! No way! We set our date to accommodate all the leagues in Africa.

Then I'd say you're the one being ignorant here, African Cup of Nations have never been about accommodating leagues in Africa alone ?! Do you know know that almost all leagues in Africa are on right now including Nigeria and Ghana just to name a few, why would African Nations Cup be on when the attention of the fans would be divided by their national league ? even for publicity and exposure that's not a wise decision. Africa already have two tournaments in place for home and national based players already CHAN and WAFU.

I repeat the major reason from AFCON is been held in January have always been about the weather it's easier to play in winter (dry season as you'd have it), than rainy season (summer), how many countries have multiple standard pitches that can be used consecutively during the rainy season ?!

And Just so you know: This edition of the Tournament was meant to be played in the Summer of 2021 after it was initially postponed.

Initially due to be played in summer 2021, the 33rd edition of the Cup of Nations was first moved to January and February 2021 due to the “unfavourable climatic conditions” in Cameroon in June and July, before covid-19 forced the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to postpone the event until the start of 2022

I would understand if the reason it's  played in January is because of the weather in Cameroon, which seems to be in the Tropics (if my general knowledge of African Geography still serves me well)

But over the years, I don't think Cameroon has been the only country hosting AFCON. So I don't think the weather is the same throughout Africa in January or July/June for that matter

Anybody from Africa confirm this. Do countries in sub-Saharan Africa experience Winter or Summer?
I am pretty sure there are counties the barely get any rain in the sub-saharan region.

[Igebotz]

I would understand if the reason it's  played in January is because of the weather in Cameroon, which seems to be in the Tropics (if my general knowledge of African Geography still serves me well)

Yeah it was originally meant to be played in June/july but weather condition was considered.

But over the years, I don't think Cameroon has been the only country hosting AFCON. So I don't think the weather is the same throughout Africa in January or July/June for that matter

Now is summer most of the African countries, the weather is slightly different between the countries on the west the Winter season is withing March, May, June and July.

Anybody from Africa confirm this. Do countries in sub-Saharan Africa experience Winter or Summer?
I am pretty sure there are counties the barely get any rain in the sub-saharan region.

These countries barely get a drop of rainfall it's summer most of the time but the morning cold will knock you out

[gabbie2010]

According to this report CAF has increased the number of substitutions in a match to 5 players amidst the increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases, recall many of the participating countries had some infected players, funny enough one of the rules stated if a country could not produce eleven players in a particular match may be due to covid-19 that team should have considered losing the match 2-0, covid-19 is really having an impact on this upcoming African Nation Cup some key players might not taste action or sidelined due to the pandemic thus such matches wouldn't be competitive to watch.
Link: https://www.cafonline.com/total-africa-cup-of-nations/news/totalenergies-afcon-202-update-on-number-of-substitutions-and-minimum-number-of-

[Gasty4]

Then player's had got lots to do for themselves, in other to prevent themselves from COVID-19.
Recently Covid cases hitting hard and differently.

[logfiles]

These countries barely get a drop of rainfall it's summer most of the time but the morning cold will knock you out

If they experience summer, then they must be experiencing Autumn, spring and winter. Is this the case in the tropics too? I always thought Countries in the tropics only experience Dry and wet season. Not Summer, winter and the likes.

Anyway, my major argument is mostly why AFCON has always been played in January in different Hosting African countries. If it's rainy in Cameroon in June. I don't think it's the same case in Mali, or Egypt or South Africa.

Personally, I think the weather is a small excuse. I don't think the whole of Africa can be experiencing heavy rains in June/July. I watch International news sometimes but in most cases, countries that are even affected by hostile down pours are usually from Asia.

The weather that I think is the most hostile for football is probably winter. But games can continue under rain in most cases.

[Slow death]

Anyway, my major argument is mostly why AFCON has always been played in January in different Hosting African countries. If it's rainy in Cameroon in June. I don't think it's the same case in Mali, or Egypt or South Africa.

I'm from Africa and in my country, for example, in January there is rain and the league is stopped because of the holidays, this January calendar has always been a reason for disagreement, this is more tradition than the weather, many African leagues have already complained about this January calendar that should change to June or July, even my country has complained about this January calendar. in any case what we will see will be a poor quality soccer unfortunately

[logfiles]

I'm from Africa and in my country, for example, in January there is rain and the league is stopped because of the holidays, this January calendar has always been a reason for disagreement, this is more tradition than the weather, many African leagues have already complained about this January calendar that should change to June or July, even my country has complained about this January calendar. in any case what we will see will be a poor quality soccer unfortunately

Exactly!

I hope they change the timing with which they play AFCON in the coming years, otherwise it will continue to be less popular. For example, I am a soccer fanatic, but I don't even know who the current reigning Champions of AFCON are, minus consulting google. 

It gets bad when players have to choose between their European league teams or the home country teams 

[Slow death]

I'm from Africa and in my country, for example, in January there is rain and the league is stopped because of the holidays, this January calendar has always been a reason for disagreement, this is more tradition than the weather, many African leagues have already complained about this January calendar that should change to June or July, even my country has complained about this January calendar. in any case what we will see will be a poor quality soccer unfortunately

Exactly!

I hope they change the timing with which they play AFCON in the coming years, otherwise it will continue to be less popular. For example, I am a soccer fanatic, but I don't even know who the current reigning Champions of AFCON are, minus consulting google. 

It gets bad when players have to choose between their European league teams or the home country teams 

unfortunately African leaders are only driven by money and political power they do nothing for the benefit of people, we have this case of AFCON for example if we ask hundreds of people from Africa if they can choose to watch games in barcelona, real madrid, games of premier league and serie A or at the same time choose AFCON games they will choose to watch games from serie A, premier league or barcelona and real madrid, I would choose european league games myself and the reason is simple: the games of the European leagues has high quality.

What happens with those corrupt shitty African leaders, they want to force people to stop watching the European games to watch AFCON. this has been obvious for years, African leaders are not concerned with promoting soccer, it doesn't make sense to play in January and compete in the audience with the Europeans when we know we don't have good quality soccer thanks to extreme corruption in Africa

According to this report CAF has increased the number of substitutions in a match to 5 players amidst the increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases, recall many of the participating countries had some infected players, funny enough one of the rules stated if a country could not produce eleven players in a particular match may be due to covid-19 that team should have considered losing the match 2-0, covid-19 is really having an impact on this upcoming African Nation Cup some key players might not taste action or sidelined due to the pandemic thus such matches wouldn't be competitive to watch.
Link: https://www.cafonline.com/total-africa-cup-of-nations/news/totalenergies-afcon-202-update-on-number-of-substitutions-and-minimum-number-of-

even if there was no pandemic it wouldn't be competitive, who watched the games in africa? even if I'm African, I like soccer, I don't watch it.

[swogerino]

There is the Cameroon game today at afternoon and we will see if this January weather will really affect the competition but I think it will not.Cameroon and most other African countries rely strongly on physical conditions of the players and usually they have better physical condition compared to other competitions.

Ethiopia vs Cape Verde is another game where Cape Verde should win without problems.Ethiopia has just not the players needed to be able to compete high during this competition.

[Masplanc]

I'm from Africa and in my country, for example, in January there is rain and the league is stopped because of the holidays, this January calendar has always been a reason for disagreement, this is more tradition than the weather, many African leagues have already complained about this January calendar that should change to June or July, even my country has complained about this January calendar. in any case what we will see will be a poor quality soccer unfortunately

Exactly!

I hope they change the timing with which they play AFCON in the coming years, otherwise it will continue to be less popular. For example, I am a soccer fanatic, but I don't even know who the current reigning Champions of AFCON are, minus consulting google. 

It gets bad when players have to choose between their European league teams or the home country teams 

unfortunately African leaders are only driven by money and political power they do nothing for the benefit of people, we have this case of AFCON for example if we ask hundreds of people from Africa if they can choose to watch games in barcelona, real madrid, games of premier league and serie A or at the same time choose AFCON games they will choose to watch games from serie A, premier league or barcelona and real madrid, I would choose european league games myself and the reason is simple: the games of the European leagues has high quality.

What happens with those corrupt shitty African leaders, they want to force people to stop watching the European games to watch AFCON. this has been obvious for years, African leaders are not concerned with promoting soccer, it doesn't make sense to play in January and compete in the audience with the Europeans when we know we don't have good quality soccer thanks to extreme corruption in Africa

According to this report CAF has increased the number of substitutions in a match to 5 players amidst the increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases, recall many of the participating countries had some infected players, funny enough one of the rules stated if a country could not produce eleven players in a particular match may be due to covid-19 that team should have considered losing the match 2-0, covid-19 is really having an impact on this upcoming African Nation Cup some key players might not taste action or sidelined due to the pandemic thus such matches wouldn't be competitive to watch.
Link: https://www.cafonline.com/total-africa-cup-of-nations/news/totalenergies-afcon-202-update-on-number-of-substitutions-and-minimum-number-of-

even if there was no pandemic it wouldn't be competitive, who watched the games in africa? even if I'm African, I like soccer, I don't watch it.

You said it all. Africa leaders are the problem  of soccer  In Africa, they never put interest in soccer , no investment  I'm soccer in the past and today it is affecting Africans and becoming a problem to Africans.  People find it interesting watching other leagues because they get the qualities in other leagues soccer .

[Rruchi man]

You said it all. Africa leaders are the problem  of soccer  In Africa, they never put interest in soccer , no investment  I'm soccer in the past and today it is affecting Africans and becoming a problem to Africans. 

I don't think the leaders are to blame alone, there is massive and widespread corruption in almost all sectors of the government and also in governing bodies bodies for African football. There is indication of corruption from election of the president, to appointment of coaches, there is corruption from the approval of Stadiums and facilities for games to the procurement of good quality equipment to ensure quality coverage. There is corruption in the selection of game officials and featuring players. The cost of game tickets at times is not even made affordable for the average individual to encourage more live spectators for games. I believe these are all contributing factors as well, reducing the quality of African football, because Africa is not short of talents.

[laurenB7742]

There is the Cameroon game today at afternoon and we will see if this January weather will really affect the competition but I think it will not.Cameroon and most other African countries rely strongly on physical conditions of the players and usually they have better physical condition compared to other competitions.

Many people think that Cameroon team is the favorite in this match. But the Burkina Faso team is not weak. I have checked the performance of some of their past matches. They have drawn three of their last four matches against Cameroon and won one. Today's match is more likely to be a draw.

Ethiopia vs Cape Verde is another game where Cape Verde should win without problems.Ethiopia has just not the players needed to be able to compete high during this competition.

The match between Ethiopia vs Cape Verde is also expected to be exciting. The two teams seemed equally strong to me. But I think Ethiopia might be able to win this match. They will win 1-0 or 2-1

[Gasty4]

Let's keep our predictions coming,as we await for the start of the game.

What's your prediction for the today's game ?

[Slow death]

Let's keep our predictions coming,as we await for the start of the game.

What's your prediction for the today's game ?

 

if someone loves the money they have then they will be careful in trying to predict these games, those teams of years ago that were good teams in Africa no longer exist, what we have today are teams of very low quality, for example, the Cameroon is weak , even my country's team can beat Cameroon sometimes, another point is that these games won't have many goals, most of the time they ended less than 3 goals, I think that maybe the only market that works for betting is the under market.

[KTChampions]

According to this report CAF has increased the number of substitutions in a match to 5 players amidst the increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases, recall many of the participating countries had some infected players, funny enough one of the rules stated if a country could not produce eleven players in a particular match may be due to covid-19 that team should have considered losing the match 2-0, covid-19 is really having an impact on this upcoming African Nation Cup some key players might not taste action or sidelined due to the pandemic thus such matches wouldn't be competitive to watch.
Link: https://www.cafonline.com/total-africa-cup-of-nations/news/totalenergies-afcon-202-update-on-number-of-substitutions-and-minimum-number-of-

I think the probability that the team will not be able to find 11 players to start the match is extremely low, however, theoretically it is possible and if this happens it will be a complete failure of the tournament organizers. I can hardly imagine what consequences this will entail, as it will affect many areas - television, where there are already plans to show matches, advertising revenues, etc.

[BIT-BENDER]

Well am impressed with the first half score line between Cameroon and Burkina Faso, I think it was entertaining and I least expected that in a nations cup game 3 goals would be scored in the first half, I really hope other African nations cup game goes this way, but I am predicting a win for Cameroon although this might be their weakest first eleven in recent generation, they would go far but they should be out probably during the quarter finals or so.

[Rruchi man]

Well am impressed with the first half score line between Cameroon and Burkina Faso.

Good to see Cameron the host country setting the pace here, leading Burkina faso by two goals to one, a very tender lead that i hope they can secure because Burkina faso is looking intent to get an equaliser. I am also happy that it is not a goalless start to the competition and great news for those who played the game "Both to score", I'm looking forward to the full time score, still expecting to see more goals.