{"id":81849,"date":"2026-01-19T05:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81849"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:27:27","slug":"mane-takes-afcon-crown-as-diaz-bounou-win-top-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/19\/mane-takes-afcon-crown-as-diaz-bounou-win-top-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u00e9 Takes AFCON Crown as D\u00edaz, Bounou Win Top Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senegal\u2019s Sadio Man\u00e9 has been named Player of the Tournament at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, capping a standout campaign that saw him lead the Teranga Lions to continental glory.<\/p>\n<p>Man\u00e9\u2019s leadership and decisive performances in key moments earned him the top individual honour as Senegal clinched the title.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing the final, Morocco dominated the individual awards. Brahim D\u00edaz finished as the tournament\u2019s Golden Boot winner with five goals, playing a crucial role in the Atlas Lions\u2019 run to the final.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Yassine Bounou was named Best Goalkeeper after recording five clean sheets in seven matches, while Morocco also claimed the Fair Play Team Award.<\/p>\n<p>The honours underlined Senegal\u2019s success as champions and Morocco\u2019s strong overall showing at AFCON 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Senegal\u2019s Sadio Man\u00e9 has been named Player of the Tournament at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, capping a standout campaign that saw him lead the Teranga Lions to continental glory. Man\u00e9\u2019s leadership and decisive performances in key moments earned him the top individual honour as Senegal clinched the title. Despite losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81849","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=81849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81851,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81849\/revisions\/81851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}