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Former Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has said Benin Republic’s historic first-ever AFCON win over Botswana has boosted their chances of reaching the knockout rounds of the tournament.<\/p>\n
Benin pipped Botswana 1-0 on Saturday after they fell by the same scoreline in their opening group game against DR Congo.<\/p>\n
“We’re happy, it’s a historic victory because Benin had never won a match in the Africa Cup of Nations in their four appearances,” Rohr said.<\/p>\n
“It’s the first one, so we’re very happy. It gives us…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Former Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has said Benin Republic’s historic first-ever AFCON win over Botswana has boosted their chances of reaching the knockout rounds of the tournament. Benin pipped Botswana 1-0 on Saturday after they fell by the same scoreline in their opening group game against DR Congo. “We’re happy, it’s a historic victory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680307:71c943e991109ce03119fea52ff262e9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[9488,258,256,4737,53258,2462,6547,13853,257,20195,8905,254,6660],"class_list":["post-218372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benin","tag-beninbotswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-celebrates","tag-firstever","tag-news","tag-republics","tag-rohr","tag-south-africa-today","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680307:71c943e991109ce03119fea52ff262e9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218372","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=218372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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