{"id":225813,"date":"2025-10-20T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225813\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:40:07","slug":"morocco-beats-argentina-to-clinch-its-first-under-20-world-cup-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225813\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco beats Argentina to clinch its first Under-20 World Cup title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) \u2014 Striker Yassir Zabrini scored twice as Morocco clinched its first Under-20 World Cup title with a 2-0 win over Argentina on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zabrini scored in the 12th and 29th minutes to help Morocco become the first African nation to win the U20 title since Ghana in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Morocco topped its group against Spain, Brazil and Mexico and then advanced over South Korea, the United States and France in the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was the first loss in the tournament for Argentina, which was aiming for its seventh title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Argentina reached the final despite missing its two best players in this age group, Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s Claudio Echeverri and Real Madrid\u00b4s Franco Mastantuono. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) \u2014 Striker Yassir Zabrini scored twice as Morocco clinched its first Under-20 World Cup title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-225813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}