{"id":794,"date":"2026-03-17T22:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=794"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:43:32","slug":"morocco-african-cup-champion-due-to-disqualification-of-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Morocco, African Cup champion due to disqualification of Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Morocco is the winner of the African Cup<\/strong>whose final was played at its stadium in Rabat on January 18, due to Senegal&#8217;s failure to appear. This has been estimated by the Appeal Board of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), following the appeal presented by the North African federation.<\/p>\n<p>In a controversial final that was decided in extra time, the Senegal players threatened to boycott <strong>protest against arbitration decisions<\/strong> at the end of the game and even left the field, but returned at the request of their captain, <strong>Sadio Mane<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Senegalese team ended up winning in extra time 0-1 with a goal from <strong>Pope Gueye<\/strong>but the abandonment of the field was protested by <strong>Morocco<\/strong>which he complained to the CAF. This Tuesday&#8217;s decision grants him the title of <strong>3-0 champion <\/strong>in a decision that will surely cause a queue.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco is the winner of the African Cupwhose final was played at its stadium in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}