{"id":6076,"date":"2021-03-12T11:49:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T11:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2021-03-12T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T11:46:53","slug":"khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents","title":{"rendered":"Khalifan hints Champions League will expose talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Confederation of African Football, Caf, has confirmed that the inaugural Caf women\u2019s Champions League will be held between October and December this year. The body confirmed the development while officially opening the bidding process for the country that will host the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The two-stage competition will see the champions of the respective leagues compete at the seven Caf regions with the top teams advancing to join the hosts in the eight-team final.<\/p>\n<p>The countries bidding to host the games need to have two standard stadiums, at least four training facilities, accommodation plans for the eight teams, and an official guarantee from their government.<\/p>\n<p><b>Exposure<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Coach Ayub Khalifan who has won three local league titles with Kawempe Muslim sees an exciting opportunity for Ugandan players to gain the much-needed exposure at the continental level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been playing and ending locally but this is a good chance for our players to be exposed out there. They have been getting that opportunity while on the national team but this will now mean all players from the best clubs will be exposed.\u201d Khalifan said.<\/p>\n<p>Reduced costs<\/p>\n<p>The coach approves the two-stage format that Caf is introducing arguing that it will help to cut down costs involved in travelling since all the games will be played in one country. He also believes the competition will improve the overall structures of clubs because they will be forced to adjust to international standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a club to play at the continental level then it means that you have to improve your structures and definitely finances. They [Caf] have helped the clubs by organizing it in a one-way tournament-format because it would have been very costly to travel to countries for one-offs considering that the game has just started growing,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda will be represented by the champions of this season\u2019s Fufa Women\u2019s Super League that replaced the Elite league. The League to be played in a bio-bubble at the Fufa Technical Centre will kick-off on April 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The Confederation of African Football, Caf, has confirmed that the inaugural Caf women\u2019s Champions League will be held between October and December this year. The body confirmed the development while officially opening the bidding process for the country that will host the tournament. The two-stage competition will see the champions of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-6076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"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>Khalifan hints Champions League will expose talents - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Confederation of African Football, Caf, has confirmed that the inaugural Caf women\u2019s Champions League will be held b ...\" \/>\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\/uganda\/all-news\/khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Khalifan hints Champions League will expose talents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Confederation of African Football, Caf, has confirmed that the inaugural Caf women\u2019s Champions League will be held b ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-12T11:49:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/03\/img-604b54916a995.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\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\/uganda\/all-news\/khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Khalifan hints Champions League will expose talents\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-12T11:49:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents\"},\"wordCount\":345,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/03\/img-604b54916a995.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/khalifan-hints-champions-league-will-expose-talents\",\"name\":\"Khalifan hints Champions League will expose talents - 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