{"id":191187,"date":"2025-02-12T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-sebastien-siani-winning-an-afcon-is-the-holy-grail\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T05:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T03:00:50","slug":"africa-sebastien-siani-winning-an-afcon-is-the-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-sebastien-siani-winning-an-afcon-is-the-holy-grail\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: S\u00e9bastien Siani &#8211; &#8216;Winning an Afcon Is the Holy Grail&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>A key man in coach Hugo Broos&#8217; set-up during Cameroon&#8217;s victory at the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Gabon 2017, midfielder S\u00e9bastien Siani was one of the main architects of that success. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Who doesn&#8217;t remember his equalising goal against Guinea-Bissau on the second day of the group stage which had turned a match that started badly for the Indomitable Lions, who won 2-1 to stay on course for the knockout round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">And it was Siani who, with a clever pass, located Vincent Aboubakar for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502110438.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key man in coach Hugo Broos&#8217; set-up during Cameroon&#8217;s victory at the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Gabon 2017, midfielder S\u00e9bastien Siani was one of the main architects of that success. Who doesn&#8217;t remember his equalising goal against Guinea-Bissau on the second day of the group stage which had turned a match that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[9488,258,256,377,50619,7197,257,41075,50618,254,15104],"class_list":["post-191187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon-news","tag-grail","tag-holy","tag-news","tag-sebastien","tag-siani","tag-south-africa-today","tag-winning"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}