{"id":194653,"date":"2025-03-27T04:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-afcon-u-20-in-trouble-as-ivorians-withdraw-as-hosts-reports\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T04:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:57:10","slug":"cote-divoire-afcon-u-20-in-trouble-as-ivorians-withdraw-as-hosts-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-afcon-u-20-in-trouble-as-ivorians-withdraw-as-hosts-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: &#8216;Afcon U-20 in Trouble As Ivorians Withdraw As Hosts&#8217; &#8211; Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>The Africa Cup of Nations Under 20 is in jeopardy following reports that Ivory Coast have withdrawn as hosts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The tournament was set for kickoff on April 26-May 18 but the Ivorians have reportedly withdrawn due to logistical hitches associated with hosting the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Reports indicate that the country has communicated the same to the continental governing body, Confederation of Africa Football (Caf), who are expected to announce the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Ivory Coast were hosts of last year&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503260531.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 The Africa Cup of Nations Under 20 is in jeopardy following reports that Ivory Coast have withdrawn as hosts. The tournament was set for kickoff on April 26-May 18 but the Ivorians have reportedly withdrawn due to logistical hitches associated with hosting the competition. Reports indicate that the country has communicated the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660176:3f5b9fe777bcc428532d375ee7ac696a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[9488,258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,6574,20387,1218,257,8327,254,19455,8350,10905],"class_list":["post-194653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-hosts","tag-ivorians","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-reports","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trouble","tag-u20","tag-withdraw"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660176:3f5b9fe777bcc428532d375ee7ac696a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}