{"id":211807,"date":"2026-02-28T00:39:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=211807"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:39:03","slug":"thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=211807","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That\u2019s absolute rubbish! We don\u2019t run CAF for Europe but for Africa\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAF president Patrice Motsepe has responded to critics surrounding the new changes of having to host the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) every four years rather than the usual period of two years. Motsepe was addressing the media during a heated Afcon closing press conference in Rabat&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/sports\/soccer\/thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAF president Patrice Motsepe has responded to critics surrounding the new changes of having to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211807-thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa.jpg",1576,886,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211807-thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211807-thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211807-thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211807-thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211807-thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211807-thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa.jpg",1576,886,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211807-thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211807-thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211807-thats-absolute-rubbish-we-dont-run-caf-for-europe-but-for-africa-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\/211807","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=211807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}