{"id":18057,"date":"2024-02-02T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=18057"},"modified":"2024-02-02T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:18:33","slug":"cameroon-striker-karl-toko-ekambi-retires-after-afcon-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/02\/cameroon-striker-karl-toko-ekambi-retires-after-afcon-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Striker Karl Toko Ekambi Retires After AFCON Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-qzcjd-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-qzcjd-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col pb-9 text-sm\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-201\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"cd3d1534-daa7-45c5-b70e-9a1cd52e7242\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>Cameroon&#8217;s Karl Toko Ekambi, following his team&#8217;s elimination from the African Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast with a 0-2 loss to Nigeria, has declared his retirement from international football.<\/p>\n<p>The striker expressed disappointment at the exit but commended his team&#8217;s efforts, stating, &#8220;A fourth chapter of the African Cup closes, the end of a story. Forever an indomitable Lion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ekambi, 31, leaves the national team after scoring 14 goals in 60 appearances for the Lions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon&#8217;s Karl Toko Ekambi, following his team&#8217;s elimination from the African Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast with a 0-2 loss to Nigeria, has declared his retirement from international football. The striker expressed disappointment at the exit but commended his team&#8217;s efforts, stating, &#8220;A fourth chapter of the African Cup closes, the end of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":18065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18080,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057\/revisions\/18080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}