{"id":231009,"date":"2026-06-07T00:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231009"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:54:49","slug":"caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231009","title":{"rendered":"CAF President Patrice Motsepe confirms AFCON expansion plans ahead of 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Patrice Motsepe, has confirmed plans to increase the number of AFCON participants, Soccernet.ng reports. \u200bCAF and the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) have been in the limelight for both good and bad reasons over the last few months&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2026\/03\/caf-president-patrice-motsepe-afcon-2027.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Patrice Motsepe, has confirmed plans to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231009-caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027-scaled.jpg",2560,1651,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231009-caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231009-caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027-300x193.jpg",300,193,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231009-caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027-768x495.jpg",640,413,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231009-caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027-1024x660.jpg",640,413,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231009-caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027-1536x991.jpg",1536,991,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231009-caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027-2048x1321.jpg",2048,1321,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231009-caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027-1024x660.jpg",1024,660,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231009-caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231009-caf-president-patrice-motsepe-confirms-afcon-expansion-plans-ahead-of-2027-590x410.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\/231009","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=231009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}