{"id":51597,"date":"2024-10-11T08:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T08:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=51597"},"modified":"2024-10-11T08:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T08:26:56","slug":"morocco-clear-favourite-to-win-2025-afcon-title-kanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/11\/morocco-clear-favourite-to-win-2025-afcon-title-kanu\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco Clear Favourite To Win 2025 AFCON Title  \u2013 Kanu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian international Nwankwo Kanu has tipped Morocco to host and win the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on home soil.<\/p>\n<p>Having won the competition once in 1976, Kanu, in a chat with Le Site Info, believes the Atlas Lions have some of the best players in Europe at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The former Arsenal star also lauded the revolution in Moroccan football, emphasizing that the team\u2019s achievements are the result of years of hard work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorocco has always boasted great players playing in Europe,\u201d Kanu told Le Site Info.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this generation is unparalleled. Yassine Bounou, Achraf Hakimi\u2026 The technicality and talent of the entire squad give this team the status of a clear favourite for the upcoming AFCON.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played against Morocco in the AFCON tournaments of 2000 and 2004\u2026 They always enter the competition as favorites but often fail to fulfill the dreams of millions of Moroccans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy hosting the AFCON at home, Morocco has every chance to be crowned champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI truly believe that the Atlas Lions will not let the next AFCON slip away, especially since the Kingdom will be the host nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian international Nwankwo Kanu has tipped Morocco to host and win the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on home soil. Having won the competition once in 1976, Kanu, in a chat with Le Site Info, believes the Atlas Lions have some of the best players in Europe at the moment. The former Arsenal star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":51601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[585,1574],"class_list":["post-51597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-kanu","tag-mrocco"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51597","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51602,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51597\/revisions\/51602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}