{"id":10889,"date":"2018-08-27T03:49:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T03:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=10889"},"modified":"2018-08-27T03:49:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T03:49:37","slug":"2018-womens-afcon-ghana-stripped-off-hosting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=10889","title":{"rendered":"2018 Women\u2019s AFCON: Ghana stripped off hosting rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-Women\u2019s-AFCON.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-Women\u2019s-AFCON.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-Women\u2019s-AFCON-410x282.jpeg 410w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-Women\u2019s-AFCON-768x528.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-Women\u2019s-AFCON-1024x704.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-Women\u2019s-AFCON-110x75.jpeg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has stripped Ghana off the hosting rights for the Women\u2019s AFCON scheduled for later this year.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to CAF the venues earmarked for the competition are way behind schedule, and have taken the bold decision to strip the hosting rights off Ghana, with less than 3 months to the start of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>CAF President Ahmad Ahmad however remains confident that a new host will be announced in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are engaging several countries and should be able to announce a host during the CAF Extraordinary General Assembly in Egypt next month,\u201d Ahmad told Kwes\u00e9ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana won the rights to host the competition back in 2016, after being the sole candidate bidding to host the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Coast and Accra Stadia were selected as the host stadia for the tournament by the Local Organizing Committee, but renovation works at the grounds have stalled.<\/p>\n<p>The LOC, last month, asked CAF to consider alternative host cities for the tournament, due to the slow progress of work at the Accra Sports Stadium, after CAF\u2019s inspection team was unhappy by the progress of work after their last visit to the country.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Women\u2019s AFCON will also serve as the qualifier to the 2019 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup, with the top three countries qualifying \u00a0for the competition in France.<\/p>\n<p>This means Ghana\u2019s Black Queens are also set to miss out on a place at the global showpiece, as their place at the tournament will be taken by the new hosts, who will join Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Algeria, South Africa, Zambia, Mali and Nigeria who have already qualified.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has stripped Ghana off the hosting rights for the Women\u2019s AFCON scheduled for later this year.\u00a0 According to CAF the venues earmarked for the competition are way behind schedule, and have taken the bold decision to strip the hosting rights off Ghana, with less than 3 months to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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