{"id":33622,"date":"2026-01-18T23:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/morocco-national-team-loses-the-african-title-to-senegal-in-the-confederation-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:15:21","slug":"morocco-national-team-loses-the-african-title-to-senegal-in-the-confederation-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/morocco-national-team-loses-the-african-title-to-senegal-in-the-confederation-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco national team loses the African title to Senegal in the Confederation Cup final."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_a18159e58c8f1205\" 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 National Team Loses 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Title to Senegal with 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 (CNN) &#8212;<\/b> The Moroccan national team lost to its Senegalese counterpart 1-0 at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium on Sunday in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">A goalless draw prevailed throughout the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final stage, as both teams were unable to secure a victory during the 90-minute regulation time.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">It is noteworthy that the &#8220;Atlas Lions&#8221; missed a penalty in the final minute of regulation time, which prompted the officiating committee to proceed with two extra-time periods to determine the champion of the current edition of the African tournament.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">The winning goal for the Senegalese &#8220;Teranga Lions&#8221; came in the extra period, as player Pape Gueye scored in the 94th minute with a shot from inside the Moroccan penalty area.<\/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=\"FbMeN04jS1\"><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=V3eIiN01ST#?secret=FbMeN04jS1\" data-secret=\"FbMeN04jS1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco National Team Loses 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Title to Senegal with Extra-Time Goal Dubai, UAE (CNN) &#8212; The Moroccan national team lost to its Senegalese counterpart 1-0 at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium on Sunday in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final. A goalless draw prevailed throughout the 2025 Africa Cup of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33622","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=33622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}