{"id":11217,"date":"2024-01-13T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=11217"},"modified":"2024-01-13T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T16:41:20","slug":"africa-cup-of-nations-kicks-off-in-ivory-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/africa-cup-of-nations-kicks-off-in-ivory-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Cup of Nations Kicks off in Ivory Coast\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abidjan &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 34th edition of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations &#8211; which will be held in Ivory Coast today, Saturday, and will continue until February 11 &#8211; will begin with a match between the host country and Guinea Bissau.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with its fans, its land, and a contingent of professionals in Europe, Ivory Coast seeks to achieve a comfortable victory over Guinea Bissau for the first group at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium, which has a capacity of 60,000 spectators.<\/p>\n<p>24 teams will participate in Cannes 2023 for the second time in a row after the previous edition, which was held in Cameroon in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Elephants are seeking to achieve a major victory in the beginning, to avoid any complicated calculations in the group that also includes Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>The teams were divided into 6 groups with 4 teams in each group, and at the end of the first round, the teams that ranked first and second from each group qualified, and the best 4 teams that ranked third would join them.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Africa Cup of Nations matches will be played in a knockout system, starting from the eighth final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Abidjan &#8211; Sudan Events The 34th edition of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations &#8211; which will be held in Ivory Coast today, Saturday, and will continue until February 11 &#8211; will begin with a match between the host country and Guinea Bissau. Armed with its fans, its land, and a contingent of professionals &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11219,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions\/11219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}