{"id":216192,"date":"2025-12-09T22:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-mozambique-afcon-2025-countdown-evergreen-at-42-dominguez-leads-mozambiques-charge-once-more\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:06:14","slug":"nigeria-mozambique-afcon-2025-countdown-evergreen-at-42-dominguez-leads-mozambiques-charge-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-mozambique-afcon-2025-countdown-evergreen-at-42-dominguez-leads-mozambiques-charge-once-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Mozambique: Afcon 2025 Countdown &#8211; Evergreen At 42, Dominguez Leads Mozambique&#8217;s Charge Once More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">For Dominguez, this AFCON is not about nostalgia. It is about relevance, leadership and one last statement on Africa&#8217;s biggest stage<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Mozambique have doubled down on experience, legacy and belief by naming 42-year-old winger Dominguez in their final 25-man squad for this month&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Dominguez, who turned 42 last month, is set to become one of the oldest players ever to feature at the continent&#8217;s flagship tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512090484.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Dominguez, this AFCON is not about nostalgia. It is about relevance, leadership and one last statement on Africa&#8217;s biggest stage Mozambique have doubled down on experience, legacy and belief by naming 42-year-old winger Dominguez in their final 25-man squad for this month&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco. Dominguez, who turned 42 last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216193,"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":[654],"tags":[9488,258,256,5211,27229,53086,49169,9429,682,10439,257,46835,254],"class_list":["post-216192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charge","tag-countdown","tag-dominguez","tag-evergreen","tag-leads","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-nigeriamozambique","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/216192","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}