{"id":213400,"date":"2025-11-12T21:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-caf-puma-unveil-afcon-2025-match-ball\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:08:44","slug":"africa-caf-puma-unveil-afcon-2025-match-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-caf-puma-unveil-afcon-2025-match-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: CAF, Puma Unveil Afcon 2025 Match Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">PUMA, the leading global sports brand, in partnership with the Confederation of African Football (CAF), has unveiled the official match ball for the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Named <strong>ITRI<\/strong>, the ball draws inspiration from Morocco&#8217;s centuries-old zellij art form, renowned for its intricate geometric mosaics, while symbolising the unity and passion of African football across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The name also pays tribute to the star featured on the Moroccan flag and reflects the star&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511120488.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUMA, the leading global sports brand, in partnership with the Confederation of African Football (CAF), has unveiled the official match ball for the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025. Named ITRI, the ball draws inspiration from Morocco&#8217;s centuries-old zellij art form, renowned for its intricate geometric mosaics, while symbolising the unity and passion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213401,"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":[4507],"tags":[9488,258,256,7653,3742,4509,8778,257,11210,254,15437],"class_list":["post-213400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ball","tag-caf","tag-ghana-news","tag-match","tag-news","tag-puma","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unveil"],"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\/213400","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=213400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}