I'm from Africa and in my country, for example, in January there is rain and the league is stopped because of the holidays, this January calendar has always been a reason for disagreement, this is more tradition than the weather, many African leagues have already complained about this January calendar that should change to June or July, even my country has complained about this January calendar. in any case what we will see will be a poor quality soccer unfortunately
Exactly!
I hope they change the timing with which they play AFCON in the coming years, otherwise it will continue to be less popular. For example, I am a soccer fanatic, but I don't even know who the current reigning Champions of AFCON are, minus consulting google.
It gets bad when players have to choose between their European league teams or the home country teams
unfortunately African leaders are only driven by money and political power they do nothing for the benefit of people, we have this case of AFCON for example if we ask hundreds of people from Africa if they can choose to watch games in barcelona, real madrid, games of premier league and serie A or at the same time choose AFCON games they will choose to watch games from serie A, premier league or barcelona and real madrid, I would choose european league games myself and the reason is simple: the games of the European leagues has high quality.
What happens with those corrupt shitty African leaders, they want to force people to stop watching the European games to watch AFCON. this has been obvious for years, African leaders are not concerned with promoting soccer, it doesn't make sense to play in January and compete in the audience with the Europeans when we know we don't have good quality soccer thanks to extreme corruption in Africa
According to this report CAF has increased the number of substitutions in a match to 5 players amidst the increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases, recall many of the participating countries had some infected players, funny enough one of the rules stated if a country could not produce eleven players in a particular match may be due to covid-19 that team should have considered losing the match 2-0, covid-19 is really having an impact on this upcoming African Nation Cup some key players might not taste action or sidelined due to the pandemic thus such matches wouldn't be competitive to watch.
Link:
https://www.cafonline.com/total-africa-cup-of-nations/news/totalenergies-afcon-202-update-on-number-of-substitutions-and-minimum-number-of-even if there was no pandemic it wouldn't be competitive, who watched the games in africa? even if I'm African, I like soccer, I don't watch it.
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