{"id":23669,"date":"2024-12-11T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/chan-2024-kenya-confident-country-will-remain-as-co-host-for-tournament\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:04:31","slug":"chan-2024-kenya-confident-country-will-remain-as-co-host-for-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/chan-2024-kenya-confident-country-will-remain-as-co-host-for-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAN 2024: Kenya confident country will remain as co-host for tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kenya certainly has a chequered past when it comes to staging continental football events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1996 they lost Afcon hosting rights to South Africa after the Kenyan government informed Caf the country was not ready.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">History repeated itself in 2017 when the country was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/41374708\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">stripped of the 2018 CHAN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month a Caf delegation inspected stadiums, hotels, airports, training venues and other facilities over the course of a three-day trip to Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caf&#8217;s host country manager for Kenya, Kabelo Bosilong, told the media the governing body is committed to ensuring that &#8220;these tournaments will take place in the countries that it was intended to take place&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kenya is due to spend over $20m on stadium renovations, and the sports minister has defended hosting CHAN at a time when other sectors in the country are in dire need of funding. The education sector, for example, was recently crippled by prolonged strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It usually comes up all the time when governments host (big events), whether it was the Olympics in London, the World Cup in Brazil and many other places,&#8221; Murkomen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People keep asking &#8216;Why would you want to put this amount of money in football vis-a-vis other competing interests?&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The consideration that was made when we were bidding was also the benefits that come from it. We are thinking our tourism is going to go up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We also believe that it&#8217;s going to inspire growth in the sports sector, and many young people will get opportunities. We believe that football investors and football scouts will also see Kenya as a country [with] potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9dpeqgx7q3o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya certainly has a chequered past when it comes to staging continental football events. In 1996 they lost Afcon hosting rights to South Africa after the Kenyan government informed Caf the country was not ready. History repeated itself in 2017 when the country was stripped of the 2018 CHAN. Last month a Caf delegation inspected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23671,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669\/revisions\/23671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}