{"id":31567,"date":"2017-01-04T00:03:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/afcon-2017-ivory-coast-given-financial-boost\/"},"modified":"2017-01-04T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:03:07","slug":"afcon-2017-ivory-coast-given-financial-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/afcon-2017-ivory-coast-given-financial-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2017: Ivory Coast given financial boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Defending champions Ivory Coast have been given extra financial support for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals.}<\/p>\n<p>The Ivorian government has approved a near \u20ac6 million euros (\u00a35.1m) budget for the team&#8217;s campaign in Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>It is an increase of \u20ac600,000 euros (\u00a3507,000) from the last finals in Equatorial Guinea two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast kick off their tournament against Togo on 16 January, before facing DR Congo and Morocco in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time champions opened a training camp in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Monday where they will face Sweden in a friendly on 8 January and will complete their warm-up with a game against Uganda, another Nations Cup-bound side, three days later.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football has revealed the winners of this year&#8217;s Nations Cup will collect $4m (\u00a33.26m) in prize money, which is a 64% increase from a previous $1.5m (\u00a31.2m).<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off on 14 January, the tournament ends with the final on 5 February.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17421 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_93215983_ivory.jpg\" alt=\"Ivory Coast with the trophy in 2015\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Defending champions Ivory Coast have been given extra financial support for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals.} The Ivorian government has approved a near \u20ac6 million euros (\u00a35.1m) budget for the team&#8217;s campaign in Gabon. It is an increase of \u20ac600,000 euros (\u00a3507,000) from the last finals in Equatorial Guinea two years ago. Ivory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31567"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31567"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}