Talk:Africa Cup of Nations
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[edit] African Cup of Nations Trophy
Does anybody have any information or know the history of the trophies of the African Cup of Nations including images?
- Added "Trophy" section. As for the images, I would upload them but it is too much work to put get all those tags and disclaimers right. So I am concentrating on adding text only for now. --ChaChaFut 04:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick update Arwel Parry! Stoa 00:49, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Form of Name
My edit to the article intro has been reverted with no explanation. (This reversion was wrongly tagged as minor.) Perhaps someone can explain why, when the CAF web site (e.g. Official tournament dates) is far from insistent on the Gallic form of the name, which appears to have been blindly translated from the French by a non-English-speaker, the so-called English Wikipedia should choose to use that in preference to the English version ("African Nations' Cup"). Or maybe I should just shut up and go back to watching the Cup of World. Grant 22:44, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
- The correct convention is "The Cup of African Nations (CAN)" from its French - "Coupe d'Afrique des nations." The reason for this is to avoid the initials of ANC and also to provide a nice little cache-all abbreviation for both French and English speakers. Sadly, partly due to ignorance - many have wrongly started calling it by its English name, and this has stuck. Its not really such an issue anymore. The CAF itself is actually a good example of this. It should really be called the African Football Confederation, but instead retains the direct French translation partly due to avoid having to use two abbreviations and naming conventions. Gaijin84 13:51, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Football colaboration of the week
[edit] New "History" section
I wrote an overview of the History of the tournament and added it to the article. Feedback, corrections and additions will be appreciated. --ChaChaFut 23:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] New "Trophy" section
Added a short trophy section with some information on the three versions. Corrections and feedback are welcome. --ChaChaFut 04:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tournament Conflicts
Shouldn't there be something in this article about how the tournament runs contrary to the FIFA calandar, ie it takes place during the European club season? Every two years there are quite a few players from the European leagues that report to duty at the Cup of Nations and their club's performance suffers as a result. In England the effect is particularly evident because it is during the winter that many clubs experience a fixture pile up. Is there any particular reason why this happens, or why FIFA lets it happen? It seems to me the tournament should run during the summer like the European Championships, Copa America, Gold Cup, Asian Cup, etc. The only reason I can think of is that since part of Africa is in the Southern Hemisphere it is done this way so as to put the tournament in the Southern summer. Thoughts, Comments? Grant.alpaugh 03:23, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
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- It happen because January and February are the Summer season in Africa. A Tournament in the middle of the winter would not be very practicable.. Other reason is the African football seasons, they are usually played along all the year, so the break of that competitions are in January and February Calapez 23:59, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reference Link Fixed
I replaced reference 3, regarding Nigeria's 1996 withdrawal. When I was typing in the reason, I hit enter before I was through, so the explanation isn't complete. It should have said that I couldn't find the original article again (the FIFA one), but I found a BBC Sport article that adequately cites it. Tanthalas39 (talk) 04:30, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] List of top scorers?
I am fixing the list of top scorers, since as of the first round of Ghana 2008, Santos (Tunisia) has scored 10 goals not 8. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.112.128.230 (talk) 11:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
