It’s not every day that a local sports tournament plays eight different national anthems as participating athletes take the field.
All this summer, soccer players living in Winnipeg but hailing from all over the continent of Africa have taken part in the Manitoba African Cup of Nations tournament at Canadian Mennonite University, with the latest game on Sunday.
The annual event started last year with just four teams representing different nations — Ghana, Senegal, Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of Congo — but has doubled in size since 2019, according to the founder.
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