{"id":284,"date":"2014-02-14T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2014-02-14T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:50:49","slug":"congo-need-230m-for-2015-u-23-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Congo need $230m for 2015 U-23 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DRC-LOGO.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-292\" alt=\"DRC LOGO\" src=\"http:\/\/citi.hatuasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DRC-LOGO.gif\" width=\"249\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have announced a provisional budget of $230 million to host the 2015 Caf U-23 Championship after the central African country was selected to organise the event.<\/p>\n<p>The sports ministry said about $200 million will be spent on rehabilitation of stadiums and other infrastructure following the poor state of the country\u2019s sport facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Three stadiums in the capital Kinshasa &#8211; Martyrs, Cardinal Malula and Velodrome &#8211; and two in Lubumbashi &#8211; Frederic Kibassa Maliba and Lupopo &#8211; will be used for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Caf U-23 Championship is held every four years with the top three teams qualifying to the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>The previous edition was held in Morocco with Gabon emerging as champions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Gary Al-Smith\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have announced a provisional budget of $230 million to host the 2015 Caf U-23 Championship after the central African country was selected to organise the event. The sports ministry said about $200 million will be spent on rehabilitation of stadiums and other infrastructure following the poor state of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}