{"id":218550,"date":"2025-12-30T22:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/morocco-zambia-el-kaabi-brace-helps-morocco-reach-afcon-last-16-as-group-winners\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:43:16","slug":"morocco-zambia-el-kaabi-brace-helps-morocco-reach-afcon-last-16-as-group-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/morocco-zambia-el-kaabi-brace-helps-morocco-reach-afcon-last-16-as-group-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\/Zambia: El Kaabi Brace Helps Morocco Reach Afcon Last 16 As Group Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Ayoub El Kaabi scored twice as hosts Morocco eased to a 3-0 victory over Zambia at the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday to secure progress to the last 16 as winners of their group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The Olympiakos striker netted in each half in front of 62,532 fans at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in the capital Rabat, while Real Madrid&#8217;s Brahim Diaz got the other goal as he scored for the third match running at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Morocco finish the first round with two wins and a draw, allowing them to progress&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512300372.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayoub El Kaabi scored twice as hosts Morocco eased to a 3-0 victory over Zambia at the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday to secure progress to the last 16 as winners of their group. The Olympiakos striker netted in each half in front of 62,532 fans at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218551,"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\/00680349:f7ece0ee85030bebd6e82d0e3a8238f8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[9488,258,256,11945,5192,8099,18488,5609,29633,257,5160,254,10771,881],"class_list":["post-218550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brace","tag-group","tag-helps","tag-kaabi","tag-morocco","tag-moroccozambia","tag-news","tag-reach","tag-south-africa-today","tag-winners","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680349:f7ece0ee85030bebd6e82d0e3a8238f8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218550","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=218550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}