{"id":81758,"date":"2026-01-16T21:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81758"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:52:02","slug":"caf-puma-unveil-special-gold-itri-ball-for-afcon-2025-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/16\/caf-puma-unveil-special-gold-itri-ball-for-afcon-2025-final\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF, PUMA Unveil Special Gold ITRI Ball for AFCON 2025 Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF), and its technical partner, PUMA, have unveiled a special gold-accented edition of the official match ball, ITRI, for Sunday\u2019s TotalEnergies AFCON 2025 final in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Hosts Morocco will face Senegal at the Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah, with kick-off scheduled for 8:00pm local time.<\/p>\n<p>CAF said in a statement on Friday that the commemorative ball was designed to honour the two finalists. The ITRI ball, used throughout the tournament, draws inspiration from traditional Moroccan zellij designs, featuring star shapes, floral patterns and circular symmetry.<\/p>\n<p>Built on PUMA\u2019s Orbita 6 technology, CAF noted that the ball blends cultural heritage with innovation while meeting elite performance standards.<\/p>\n<p>CAF and PUMA had earlier unveiled the ITRI ball as the official match ball for AFCON 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The Confederation of African Football (CAF), and its technical partner, PUMA, have unveiled a special gold-accented edition of the official match ball, ITRI, for Sunday\u2019s TotalEnergies AFCON 2025 final in Morocco. Hosts Morocco will face Senegal at the Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah, with kick-off scheduled for 8:00pm local time. CAF said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81758","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81760,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81758\/revisions\/81760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}