{"id":66804,"date":"2025-05-28T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66804"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:35:17","slug":"afcon-2025-fae-tips-nigeria-egypt-others-as-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/28\/afcon-2025-fae-tips-nigeria-egypt-others-as-favourites\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025: Fae Tips Nigeria, Egypt, Others as Favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire head coach Emerse Fa\u00e9 has named Nigeria, Egypt, Senegal, and Morocco as the top contenders for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), title.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with New National Star, Fa\u00e9 admitted that defending the title will be tough for the Elephants, despite their status as reigning champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorocco, of course, Senegal, Nigeria, Egypt,\u201d Fa\u00e9 listed when asked about the favourites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs title holders, we\u2019ll also have that status to live up to. Also, watch out for the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Fa\u00e9 also noted that some underdog teams could pose a serious challenge, saying: \u201cThere will be serious outsiders-not the most expected-but who will have a card to play with necessarily less pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande &nbsp; C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire head coach Emerse Fa\u00e9 has named Nigeria, Egypt, Senegal, and Morocco as the top contenders for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), title. In an interview with New National Star, Fa\u00e9 admitted that defending the title will be tough for the Elephants, despite their status as reigning champions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[813],"class_list":["post-66804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66804","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66806,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66804\/revisions\/66806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}