{"id":26927,"date":"2023-05-12T15:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?p=26927"},"modified":"2023-05-13T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T09:55:12","slug":"botswana-confident-of-winning-afcon-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/botswana-confident-of-winning-afcon-bid","title":{"rendered":"Botswana confident  of winning  AFCON bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Botswana is ready to submit a convincing bid book to meet all the CAF requirements in a quest to host the AFCON 2027.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Botswana has submitted declaration of interest to host alongside Algeria, Egypt and a joint bid from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>The bid committee chairperson, Ashford Mamelodi said they were confident to put up an impressive bid despite the fact that their contenders\u2019 have superior facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We just have to put our best foot forward, and we believe there are certain things that we have and they don\u2019t have, so what we want to do as Botswana is to put a very strong compelling bid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mamelodi said given Botswana\u2019s lead consultant\u2019s experience they were ready for the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>He said the the lead consultants engaged accounting officers in Gaborone on Tuesday to ensure that they were no gaps in requirements set by CAF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in this to win it, and that\u2019s how the BIDCO team feels, we are in it to win it that is our aim,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>South African based Reuben Reddy Architects (RRA) has been tasked to come up with a compelling bid book and its representative Reuben Reddy said they were working around the clock to meet the submission deadline.<\/p>\n<p>He said this was not their first time to be engaged in coming up with a bid book, given that they had done successful bids in Russia to win rights to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia was comparable to Botswana, as they were first time bidders and we had to put the best foot forward and fulfilling CAF requirements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore Reddy assured Batswana that they would meet CAF deadline for member associations to submit their final bid on May 23.<\/p>\n<p>May 23 is also deadline for countries willing to host to submit hosting agreement, host cities and government guarantees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Botswana is ready to submit a convincing bid book to meet all the CAF requirements in a quest to host the AFCON 2027. Botswana has submitted declaration of interest to host alongside Algeria, Egypt and a joint bid from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. 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