{"id":15614,"date":"2023-09-27T21:45:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15614"},"modified":"2023-09-27T21:45:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:45:26","slug":"nigeria-loses-bid-to-host-afcon-2027-kenya-uganda-and-tanzania-named-joint-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15614","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Loses Bid To Host AFCON 2027, Kenya, Uganda, And Tanzania Named Joint Hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In a disappointing turn of events, Nigeria has lost its bid to host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/caf-africa-cup-of-nations\/news\/caf-awards-the-afcon-2025-to-morocco-and-the-afcon-2027-to-kenya-tanzania-and-uganda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">African Cup of Nations<\/a> in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The joint bid with the Benin Republic was unsuccessful, as Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania were announced as the joint hosts of the tournament for that year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh, along with representatives from the Nigeria Football Federation, had traveled to Egypt to present their bid. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nigeria&#8217;s only previous hosting of the AFCON was in 1980, when the team emerged victorious in front of their home fans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, the joint hosting with Ghana in 2000 ended in disappointment, as Cameroon&#8217;s Indomitable Lions claimed the trophy at the National Stadium in Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n a disappointing turn of events, Nigeria has lost its bid to host the African Cup of Nations in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7675,7677,785,92,7676,617],"class_list":["post-15614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcon-2027","tag-joint-hosts","tag-kenya","tag-nigeria","tag-tanzania","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15616,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions\/15616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}