{"id":408184,"date":"2026-01-15T06:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/408184\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:07:08","slug":"world-football-afcon-2025-morocco-and-senegal-reach-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/408184\/","title":{"rendered":"World Football &#8211; Afcon 2025: Morocco and Senegal reach the final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for over a year<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Lee James is joined by John Bennett, North African football expert Maher Mezahi and Moroccan football journalist Jalal Bounouar to provide immediate reaction to hosts Morocco beating Nigeria on penalties to reach Sunday&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p>Piers Edwards and the former South Africa captain Dean Furman reflect on Senegal&#8217;s 1-0 semi-final victory over Egypt, including reaction from match-winner Sadio Mane and teammate Idrissa Gana Gueye.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Timecodes:<\/p>\n<p>00:14 &#8211; Immediate reaction to Morocco&#8217;s victory over Nigeria<br \/>\n09:03 &#8211; Reaction to Senegal&#8217;s victory over Egypt<br \/>\n15:49 &#8211; Sadio Mane interview<br \/>\n17:03 &#8211; Idrissa Gana Gueye interview<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0mv1s4j\" aria-label=\"Programme Website of Afcon 2025: Morocco and Senegal reach the final\" data-testid=\"programme-website-link\" class=\"sw-group sw-inline-flex sw-items-center sw-pt-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Programme Website<\/a>Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Available for over a year Lee James is joined by John Bennett, North African football expert Maher Mezahi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-408184","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\/408184","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=408184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}