{"id":212882,"date":"2026-03-04T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212882"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:54:58","slug":"afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212882","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025 \u2013 An enchanting story begins its final journey\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The last time Morocco hosted the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in 1988, it lost by a single goal in the semi-finals to eventual winners, Cameroon, who advanced to the final where they overcame Nigeria to emerge as champions. Eight years earlier&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/authorityngr.com\/2026\/01\/18\/afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The last time Morocco hosted the African Cup of Nations (AFCON)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212882","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\/212882-afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey.jpg",400,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212882-afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212882-afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey-240x300.jpg",240,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212882-afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey.jpg",400,500,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212882-afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey.jpg",400,500,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212882-afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey.jpg",400,500,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212882-afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey.jpg",400,500,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212882-afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey.jpg",400,500,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212882-afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey.jpg",400,500,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212882-afcon-2025-an-enchanting-story-begins-its-final-journey-400x410.jpg",400,410,true]},"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\/212882","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=212882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/212883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}