{"id":33616,"date":"2026-01-18T23:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/breaking-morocco-loses-african-title-to-senegal-in-the-africa-cup-of-nations-final\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:10:22","slug":"breaking-morocco-loses-african-title-to-senegal-in-the-africa-cup-of-nations-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/breaking-morocco-loses-african-title-to-senegal-in-the-africa-cup-of-nations-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Morocco Loses African Title to Senegal in the Africa Cup of Nations Final."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_a4068c22835d319c\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Morocco Loses 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Final to Senegal via Extra-Time Goal<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\"><b data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Dubai, UAE\u2014<\/b> The Moroccan national team lost to its Senegalese counterpart 1-0 in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final, held at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The match was dominated by a goalless stalemate throughout regulation time, as neither team managed to find the back of the net during the 90 minutes. The Moroccan team, known as the &#8220;Atlas Lions,&#8221; missed a penalty in the final minute of the first half, pushing both sides into extra time.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The efforts of the Senegalese team, known as the &#8220;Teranga Lions,&#8221; paid off in the end, as Pape Gueye scored the winning goal for the Senegalese side in the 94th minute of the first half of extra time with a powerful shot from inside the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">With this result, Senegal claimed the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations title, while Morocco concluded its journey in the prestigious tournament with this defeat.<\/p>\n<p>United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<\/p>\n<p>An independent media platform providing reliable news and objective analysis, seeking to promote peace and cultural dialogue worldwide, to convey the truth and build bridges of understanding between peoples.<\/p>\n<p>For more news, you can visit our homepage:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SfrqLySfFu\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/\">Home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0629 \u2013 UNN \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\" src=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/embed\/#?secret=q7lQ8cOtOr#?secret=SfrqLySfFu\" data-secret=\"SfrqLySfFu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco Loses 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Final to Senegal via Extra-Time Goal Dubai, UAE\u2014 The Moroccan national team lost to its Senegalese counterpart 1-0 in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final, held at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium on Sunday evening. The match was dominated by a goalless stalemate throughout regulation time, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}