{"id":204555,"date":"2026-01-14T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=204555"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:57:43","slug":"breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=204555","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: AFCON moves to four-year cycle from 2028, Nations League launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) is set to undergo a historic transformation as it moves from its traditional two-year cycle to a four-year format, starting in 2028, Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has confirmed. This landmark decision marks a significant shift in the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wap.justnaija.com\/sport\/breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched-f37711\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) is set to undergo a historic transformation as it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204555-breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204555-breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204555-breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204555-breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204555-breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204555-breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204555-breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204555-breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204555-breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204555-breaking-afcon-moves-to-four-year-cycle-from-2028-nations-league-launched-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}