{"id":870,"date":"2026-05-13T16:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:39:37","slug":"im-confident-that-an-african-country-will-win-the-world-cup-caf-president-patrice-motsepe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m confident that an African country will win the World Cup&#8217;: CAF President Patrice Motsepe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with FRANCE 24, the president of the\u00a0Confederation of African Football (CAF) discussed the upcoming\u00a0World Cup and AFCON competitions. &#8220;I&#8217;m confident that an African country will win the World Cup,&#8221; Patrice Motsepe\u00a0said. &#8220;We have to aspire high and high&#8221;.\u00a0He also addressed the unprecedented decision by the CAF to strip Senegal of the most recent AFCON title and hand it to Morocco. &#8220;Things are back to normal,&#8221; Motsepe\u00a0insisted. &#8220;Based on what has happened since the AFCON in Morocco, we are now stronger, more united than ever.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with FRANCE 24, the president of the\u00a0Confederation of African Football (CAF) discussed the upcoming\u00a0World Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}