{"id":218515,"date":"2025-12-30T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-gabon-afcon-2025-cameroon-hold-cote-divoire-aubameyangs-gabon-eliminated\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:02:08","slug":"cameroon-gabon-afcon-2025-cameroon-hold-cote-divoire-aubameyangs-gabon-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-gabon-afcon-2025-cameroon-hold-cote-divoire-aubameyangs-gabon-eliminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\/Gabon: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Cameroon Hold C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Aubameyang&#8217;s Gabon Eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Cameroon and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire played out a 1-1 draw on Sunday night at the Marrakech Stadium, leaving Group F wide open after a high-level clash between two of Africa&#8217;s football giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Having both won their opening matches&#8211;Cameroon against Gabon and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire versus Mozambique&#8211;the two sides met with the clear objective of taking control of the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Both coaches made bold attacking selections. Emerse Fa\u00e9 chose to start Vakoun Bayo ahead of Wilfried Zaha, while Cameroon coach David Pagou&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290139.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>Cameroon and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire played out a 1-1 draw on Sunday night at the Marrakech Stadium, leaving Group F wide open after a high-level clash between two of Africa&#8217;s football giants. Having both won their opening matches&#8211;Cameroon against Gabon and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire versus Mozambique&#8211;the two sides met with the clear objective of taking control of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218516,"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":[376],"tags":[9488,258,256,53273,4698,377,53272,5958,5959,17149,2951,7204,257,254],"class_list":["post-218515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aubameyangs","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroongabon","tag-cote","tag-divoire","tag-eliminated","tag-gabon","tag-hold","tag-news","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\/218515","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=218515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}