Everything you need to know about AFCON 2023
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Maher Mezahi and Alasdair Howorth to preview the upcoming AFCON tournament.
Why is it called AFCON 2023 if it’s in 2024?
Why should people be watching this tournament?
The tournament is being played in Cote d’Ivoire. How will this impact the tournament?
Which are the groups that they’re particularly excited to see play out?
Who are the players to watch?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I am John McKenzie and I'm joined as I always am by my good pal and producer Mike Zimmerman. Mike, how are you doing? |
| 0:15.9 | I'm doing well trying to stay warm here in the US. How are you, John? I'm doing okay. It's chilly over here in the |
| 0:20.8 | UK, but a place where it won't be chilly this next few weeks is the Ivory Coast, which is where |
| 0:26.1 | Afgon 2023 is taking place. And we were lucky enough in this episode to have two very special |
| 0:32.2 | guests on who know pretty much everything there is to know about African football. So we had |
| 0:36.5 | Alistair Howarth and Mahay Masahi, who are both freelance to know about African football. So we had Alistair Howeth and |
| 0:37.8 | Mahe Mazahi, who are both freelance journalists who cover African football on to talk all about |
| 0:43.2 | Afcon 2023. Mike, you've just listened to that conversation. What did you make of it? |
| 0:47.7 | Well, not only were we getting people excited for the tournament, but I think our listeners will learn |
| 0:52.9 | a lot about African football, the subcultures, and why the tournament kind but I think our listeners will learn a lot about African football, |
| 0:59.5 | the subcultures, and why the tournament kind of started as a way to unify the continent. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah, and I think what's fantastic about our guests is that they're able to talk about the sociocultural aspects as well as what's happening on the pitch as well. |
| 1:06.6 | And there's plenty of excitement to come. |
| 1:08.7 | Lots of really elite players that are household names in Europe. |
| 1:11.5 | We'll be competing for the Afcon trophy over the next few months. |
| 1:14.9 | But as always, I think the best thing for us to do is to jump right into that conversation |
| 1:18.1 | between Mahamazahi and Alastahawah. |
| 1:34.2 | So I'm very excited for us to be able to talk all about AFCON, because AFCON is coming up. |
| 1:36.5 | It is kicking off on the 13th of January. |
| 1:41.1 | That's a Saturday of two very special guests with me, both of whom will be in Côte d'Ivoire, |
| 1:44.6 | following that tournament and covering it for various outlets. |
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