Generous and supportive, the president of Equatorial Guinea. Teodoro Obiang Nguema assured that he would offer, from his personal funds, no less than 40.000 places for matches of the 2015 African Football Cup of Nations to the most deprived supporters. “We need to give a solemn character to this event, so we need to buy the tickets to fill the stadiums,” he said on national television. May those who have the means help the poor! I myself buy 40.000 entries, at a rate of 10.000 per region. These are tickets for 500 CFA francs (around 75 cents), or 20 million FCFA (30.000 euros). » The Equatorial Guinean president also stressed that the stadiums had to be full for the money to enter the coffers of the State, which agreed to organize the CAN at the last minute after the defection of Morocco.
— Published January 14, 2015
