Alex Iwobi: Afcon is a special football tournament
The Fulham midfielder will represent his birth country Nigeria in the competition featuring 24 nations.
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The tournament will see 24 teams battling for the continental crown across the next couple of weeks.
Fulham midfielder Iwobi will represent his home country of Nigeria in the competition, where they will be hoping to clinch the title after missing out in a 2-1 loss to Ivory Coast in 2023's final.
"With Afcon, you get to celebrate Africa through football," he tells BBC Newsbeat.
"You get to see different cultures, you get to see how different people dress, how people from Nigeria, the way we walk into the changing rooms.
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