Although The African Cup of Nations starts on January 9th 2022 with an opening game between hosts Cameroon and Burkina Faso, the unofficial talks about AFCON 2022 are already on the way. The reason – a potential clash of dates between Africa’s biggest competition and FIFA’s Club World Cup. Confederation of African Football received an official letter from the Organizing Committee of the FIFA Club World Cup to hold an urgent meeting, to discuss the conflict of dates between the African Nations Cup and the Club World Cup hosted by Abu Dhabi during the period From 3 to 12 February next.Liverpool’s plan to ease the pain of Salah and Sane’s departure for AFCONAccording to the reports, it was Egyptian champion Al-Ahly who objected about this, since they are current CAF Champions League winners, after beating Kaizer Chiefs 3–0 in Morocco. Africa’s most successful club ever has won 10 CAF titles so far, and for two years in a row. Samson Adamu, Competitions Director at CAF then held talks with the Egyptian Football Association in this regard to discuss the best ways and means to resolve conflicting tournament dates.Al-Midan learned that in the event that the African Nations Cup is held and there are no developments regarding the cancellation or postponement of the tournament, the tournament may be brought forward by about 96 hours, to be held on January 4 or 5 instead of January 9, and the closing ceremony and final match will be held on February 1 instead From February 6th. In any case, all parties want this potential problem to be resolved ASAP, which means by the end of this year at the latest.
