{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Mathematical 7","provider_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7","title":"The Ghost of Hayatou resurrects in Rabat! - Mathematical 7","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wwRVOAcuEX\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/the-ghost-of-hayatou-resurrects-in-rabat\/\">The Ghost of Hayatou resurrects in Rabat!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/the-ghost-of-hayatou-resurrects-in-rabat\/embed\/#?secret=wwRVOAcuEX\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Ghost of Hayatou resurrects in Rabat!&#8221; &#8212; Mathematical 7\" data-secret=\"wwRVOAcuEX\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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This time around, instead of haunting all his opponents as was the case for the many decades of his endless, autocratic reign, Issa\u2019s ghost is being haunted by his past. The anti-Hayatou sentiments in African football are so high and pungent that everything he ever touched is likely to be altered one way or the other if the present CAF executives, led by Ahmad Ahmad, were to have their way. Issa Hayatou has become bad news in CAF.IT is the handwriting of the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, that seems now to be all over CAF. Ahmad who must be reading a page from Infantino\u2019s book on his vision for football. The first major decision of CAF under Ahmad is to adopt Gianni\u2019s expansion formula - increasing the number of participating countries at the African showpiece championship, Afcon, to 24.CAF is even going a step further by implementing the new format immediately. Unlike FIFA\u2019s decision to start the implementation of the new 48-nations format after the next two World Cups that had been awarded already to Russia and Qatar, Afcon 2019, slated for Cameroon, will be used to test the new format. Many people see this as Ahmad\u2019s way of paying back Issa Hayatou in his own coins. When the hosting rights of the last Africa Under-17 championships were first awarded to Madagascar and later moved at the last minute to Gabon by CAF under Issa Hayatou, many people believed it was because Ahmad had dared to announce he was going to run against Issa for the presidency of CAF in the last elections. The official reason given was that Madagascar was not ready. The truth is that no one dared Issa and got away with it. Now the tables are turned. Cameroon, with Issa as President of CAF for almost three decades, was awarded the hosting right of the 2019 African Cup of Nations, only for the second time in their history, despite being one of the foremost contributors, in terms of achievements at an international level, to Africa\u2019s place in World football. The 2019 version was designed as Issa\u2019s parting gift to his country. With one \u2018innocuous\u2019 stroke, by simply taking the decision to start implementing the expansion formula of increasing the number of participants to 24 with immediate effect from the next edition of Afcon, the 2019 championship has been inadvertently and effectively taken away from Cameroon. In the two years to the championship from now, it is simply too short for the central African country to put together the resources and the facilities to host an expanded Afcon! For many decades the country could only boast of the one truly standard-class stadium in Yaounde. The other two in Douala and Garoua were sub-standard and were to undergo total renovation for the 2019 Afcon. Two new stadiums were on the drawing board.   Now, this! To host 24 national teams would now require more of everything - funds, personnel, infrastructure, facilities, and so on."}