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Sierra Leone’s fairytale debut at the TotalEnergies CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations Egypt 2025 came to an end in heartbreaking fashion, but their courage and fighting spirit earned the admiration of even their opponents.<\/em><\/p>\n The West African side were narrowly edged 1-0 by Morocco after extra time in Monday’s quarter-final in Cairo.<\/p>\n A late own goal by defender Amara Keita proved decisive, dashing Sierra Leone’s hopes of reaching the semi-finals and qualifying for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.<\/p>\n Despite the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Sierra Leone’s fairytale debut at the TotalEnergies CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations Egypt 2025 came to an end in heartbreaking fashion, but their courage and fighting spirit earned the admiration of even their opponents. The West African side were narrowly edged 1-0 by Morocco after extra time in Monday’s quarter-final in Cairo. A late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[9488,258,256,3742,15722,17162,6572,257,19316,7571,6571,1135,254,38847,8350],"class_list":["post-198169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-earn","tag-exit","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-quarterfinal","tag-respect","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-totalenergies","tag-u20"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/198169","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=198169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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