{"id":206137,"date":"2026-01-21T01:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=206137"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:57:13","slug":"saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=206137","title":{"rendered":"Saintfiet Criticises FIFA, European Clubs Over Four-Year AFCON Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cup of Nations has almost always been held at two-year intervals since the first edition in 1957, but Confederation of African Football president Patrice Motsepe last weekend announced that the tournament would go ahead every four years after a planned 2028 tournament.<br \/>\nThe post Saintfiet Criticises FIFA&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/12\/25\/saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cup of Nations has almost always been held at two-year intervals since the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206137","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\/206137-saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan.jpg",650,350,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206137-saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206137-saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan-300x162.jpg",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206137-saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan.jpg",640,345,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206137-saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan.jpg",640,345,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206137-saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan.jpg",650,350,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206137-saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan.jpg",650,350,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206137-saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan.jpg",650,350,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206137-saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan.jpg",650,350,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206137-saintfiet-criticises-fifa-european-clubs-over-four-year-afcon-plan-590x350.jpg",590,350,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\/206137","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=206137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}