8 teams from North Africa
8 teams from Central/West Africa
8 teams from Southern/East Africa
14 games - Home & Away
Top 5 each group ➡️ Round of 16 + 1
There would also be a relegation play-off between the three bottom teams of each group and the three top teams of the "CAF Confed/Zonal Cup"
There are major questions to be answered though
The rumoured $20 million funding required from teams to enter. Dr Motsepe has mentioned that private equity partners are lining up to sponsor the competition.
In addition, the nature of the pooling system is heavily weighted against traditionally stronger North African teams
The Women’s Sport Trust’s “visibility uncovered” study has found that the audience for domestic women’s sport amassed a total audience of almost 32.9 million people last year
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📸 BBC
Of the total number of women’s sport’s viewers, 41% of viewing hours went to cricket, while football contributed 39%
These numbers are set to be boosted by BBC Sport and Sky Sports beginning with the new season in September
A key finding in the report is that the 5.9 million new viewers for the WSL had not watched any other sport in 2021 before the start of the season.
This is key because it shows there is massive untapped potential.
19 Year Old Mzansi Girl Working For @AFCorse Ferrari At #Kyalami9H 🇿🇦🏎️💃
AF Corse Ferrari is in town to compete at the Kyalami 9 Hour this weekend and they have a young South African Mechatronic Engineering student working for them, Nicola Watt.
AF Corse is a racing team synonymous with the Ferrari GT racing program led by Amato Ferrari (not related to Ferrari family) with numerous international championship titles to its name.
Nicola was born and raised in Kyalami, just across the road from the Kyalami Grand Prix circuit and grew up in a sports obsessed family. She is a big motorsport fan and has an insatiable love for the analytics and engineering in the success of the cars
When Patrice Motsepe ascended to power as the President of CAF on 12 March 2021, he could hardly have gone into the position at a worse time.
The federation was described as a holy mess bereft with corruption, infighting and in financial disarray
His biggest task was the state of broadcasting of football games and tournaments on the continent.
An Egyptian court scrapped a billion dollar deal that CAF had with exclusive agent for marketing and media rights, Lagardère as the deal had been concluded without any open tender
10 cameras are placed alongside the stadium’s roof. Cameras and other sensors on the pitch track 29 data points per player 50 times per second. It provides an accurate position of players’ limbs in reference to the offside line in real-time
📸: ChyronHego
The cameras and sensors are combined with AI technology that watches and analyses the game in real time and is ultra fast.
Video assistant referees receive a near-instant alert to whether the technology determines a player is onside or not and immediately relayed to the referee