suspension<\/a> of government measures \u200dimposed on the \u200dnational team and the lifting of those against players Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Bruno Ecuele \u200cManga, following their early exit from the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2025.<\/p>\nBoth players were removed from the Gabon team; the coaching staff, including head coach Thierry Mouyouma, was fired; and the whole squad was suspended by Gabon\u2019s government in an announcement made on national television after Gabon failed to win a game at the tournament in Morocco.<\/p>\n
The football federation said the \u201cgovernment measures suspending the national team\u201d and excluding the two players were lifted on Monday. Mouyouma and his coaching staff remained fired.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government measures suspending the national team have been lifted, as well \u200cas the exclusion of players Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Bruno Ecuele \u200cManga following the unsatisfactory results \u2060of the national team at the Africa Cup of Nations,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Minister of Sports Paul Ulrich Kessany highlighted the urgency of upcoming deadlines, notably the \u200ddraw for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
Gabon \u2060lost their Group F games against Cameroon, \u200bMozambique and title holders Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n
The suspension could have led to the suspension of the football association, as world football\u2019s governing body FIFA takes \u200ba hard stance against \u200cgovernment interference in the running of football associations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star players Aubameyang and Manga are back but the football association will continue its search for a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[6074,189929,64,63,596,217880,44,588,85],"class_list":["post-411968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-africa","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-gabon","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}