{"id":380110,"date":"2025-12-31T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380110\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:57:07","slug":"afcon-2025-equatorial-guinea-pair-banned-for-abusing-referee-after-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380110\/","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2025: Equatorial Guinea pair banned for abusing referee after defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players will miss the National Thunder&#8217;s final group match against Algeria on Wednesday (16:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the country&#8217;s football federation (Feguifut) has been fined $10,000 (\u00a37,435) after its technical staff and players made &#8220;excessive and abusive protests&#8221; against decisions by the officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mvoutou&#8217;s report indicated there was &#8220;a progressive deterioration in behaviour on the sidelines&#8221; after Equatorial Guinea defender Saul Coco scored an own goal in the 74th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Caf has fined Burkina Faso captain Bertrand Traore the sum of $10,000 (\u00a37,435) for &#8220;offensive remarks&#8221; made in a post-match interview after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c0l9rz88p57t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Stallions lost 1-0 to Angola in Group E<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both players will miss the National Thunder&#8217;s final group match against Algeria on Wednesday (16:00 GMT). Meanwhile, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-380110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}