{"id":212874,"date":"2026-03-04T15:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212874"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:55:02","slug":"afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212874","title":{"rendered":"AFCON final: Senegal boycott, then return, score as Morocco miss controversial penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal\u2019s national team staged a dramatic on-field boycott<br \/>\nto protest a controversial late penalty awarded to Morocco, only to return<br \/>\nmoments later to witness their opponents squander the golden opportunity.\u00a0In an unprecedented and chaotic Africa Cup of Nations<br \/>\n(AFCON) final on Sunday evening, the Senegalese players&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianeye.com\/2026\/01\/breaking-senegal-boycott-then-return.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal\u2019s national team staged a dramatic on-field boycott to protest a controversial late penalty awarded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212874-afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty.jpg",72,72,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212874-afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty.jpg",72,72,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212874-afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty.jpg",72,72,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212874-afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty.jpg",72,72,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212874-afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty.jpg",72,72,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212874-afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty.jpg",72,72,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212874-afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty.jpg",72,72,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212874-afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty.jpg",72,72,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212874-afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty.jpg",72,72,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212874-afcon-final-senegal-boycott-then-return-score-as-morocco-miss-controversial-penalty.jpg",72,72,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/212875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}