{"id":43091,"date":"2022-01-07T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/african-union-of-broadcasting-aub-fan-zone-kicks-off-with-spectacular-opening-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:30:06","slug":"african-union-of-broadcasting-aub-fan-zone-kicks-off-with-spectacular-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/african-union-of-broadcasting-aub-fan-zone-kicks-off-with-spectacular-opening-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"African Union of Broadcasting (AUB) Fan Zone kicks off with spectacular opening ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"press-body-in\">\n                            <span><br \/>\n                                                            YAOUNDE, Cameroon, January 7, 2022\/APO Group\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 33rd Africa Cup of Nations Total Energies AFCON 2021 will kick off on Sunday, 9 January, 2022 at the Olembe Stadium, Yaound\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As the event is fast approaching, excitement is getting into full gear and stakeholders are multiplying initiatives to make this edition a sparkling success.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, 6 January 2022, the African Union of Broadcasting launched the opening of its FAN ZONE, in the presence of important personalities and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>During the solemn ceremony, the AUB CEO, Mr Gr\u00e9goire Ndjaka recalled the importance of sports in peacebuilding and resilience in the society.<\/p>\n<p>Being one of the most popular sports in the world, football has a positive impact on hardworking youths with stable incomes. He therefore encouraged broadcasters to promote sports in general and football in particular as a sign of social cohesion and tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ndjaka presented the game as a discipline for the masses, not only the elite.<\/p>\n<p>The AUB Fan Zone is based in Messamendongo, a suburb of Cameroon&#8217;s capital, Yaound\u00e9. It is access free and remains open from the 6 January to 06 February, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Fan zone, AUB has installed a temporary Headquarters comprising an AFCON Monitoring Unit and a Production Center.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/african-union-of-broadcasting.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/african-union-of-broadcasting-aub-fan-zone-kicks-off-with-spectacular-opening-ceremony?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YAOUNDE, Cameroon, January 7, 2022\/APO Group\/ &#8212; The 33rd Africa Cup of Nations Total Energies AFCON 2021 will kick off on Sunday, 9 January, 2022 at the Olembe Stadium, Yaound\u00e9. As the event is fast approaching, excitement is getting into full gear and stakeholders are multiplying initiatives to make this edition a sparkling success. Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}