{"id":53406,"date":"2025-12-04T20:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:59:07","slug":"afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris","title":{"rendered":"AFCON Morocco 2025 Diaspora Tour Day 1 in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Paris stop on Wednesday of the Diaspora Tour, held to promote next month\u2019s AFCON in Morocco, brought together prominent figures from African football as the trophy was unveiled to the public near the Eiffel Tower.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Former Ivory Coast defender and AFCON champion Yaya Toure\u0301 praised the organisation of the upcoming AFCON, adding that the main favourites are Morocco, Senegal, and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal defender Moussa Niakhate\u0301 said the tournament will serve as a preview of what Morocco is capable of delivering as a co-host of the 2030 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt (the 2030 World Cup) will be very important for African football and also for the culture because all the light will be in Africa. In 2010, it was already the case with South Africa. Now it will be very important in Morocco, and I think the next AFCON will be just a little test before the big World Cup. So I&#8217;m very happy for that, and this shows that African football is progressing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will be the 35th edition of the biennial competition, and the first time the Africa Cup of Nations has been scheduled over the Christmas and New Year period.<\/p>\n<p>Hosts Morocco will face Comoros in the opening match on December 21st at Rabat\u2019s newly completed 69,500-capacity Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, which will also stage the final on January 18th.<\/p>\n<p>The Diaspora Tour continues in Paris on the 4th of December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Eritrea<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. The Paris stop on Wednesday of the Diaspora Tour, held to promote next month\u2019s AFCON in Morocco, brought together prominent figures from African football as the trophy was unveiled to the public near the Eiffel Tower. Former Ivory Coast defender and AFCON champion Yaya Toure\u0301 praised the organisation of the upcoming AFCON, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":53405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[5601,233,125,3576],"class_list":["post-53406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-can-2025","tag-eritrea","tag-football","tag-yaya-toure"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AFCON Morocco 2025 Diaspora Tour Day 1 in Paris - Eritrea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Paris stop on Wednesday of the Diaspora Tour, held to promote next month\u2019s AFCON in Morocco, brought together pro ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFCON Morocco 2025 Diaspora Tour Day 1 in Paris\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Paris stop on Wednesday of the Diaspora Tour, held to promote next month\u2019s AFCON in Morocco, brought together pro ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eritrea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-04T20:36:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-04T21:59:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2025\/12\/sm_1764872802.927732.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"AFCON Morocco 2025 Diaspora Tour Day 1 in Paris\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-04T20:36:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-04T21:59:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris\"},\"wordCount\":253,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2025\/12\/sm_1764872802.927732.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"CAN 2025\",\"Eritrea\",\"football\",\"Yaya Toure\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/afcon-morocco-2025-diaspora-tour-day-1-in-paris\",\"name\":\"AFCON Morocco 2025 Diaspora Tour Day 1 in Paris - 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