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Africa’s newest club competition does not yet look how its founding fathers had first envisaged.
The brainchild of FIFA President Gianni Infantino and his Confederation of African Federations (CAF) counterpart Patrice Motsepe has been pared down from a 24-team mini-league and then knockout format to an eight-club knockout competition.
Its prize money for the winner has shrunk from $11.5m to $4m, and there is still no television broadcast…
