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Head down, hands on heads, lost looks in the stands. The silence that followed the final whistle said it all. C\u00f4te d’Ivoire will not defend their crown. The dream of a back to back title ended in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
The defending champions were knocked out of AFCON 2025, falling a 3-2 to Egypt on Saturday at the Grand Stade d’Agadir.<\/p>\n
Egypt hit early, as Omar Marmoush opened the scoring in the fourth minute, before Rami Rabia doubled the lead in the 32nd minute, putting the Pharaohs firmly in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Head down, hands on heads, lost looks in the stands. The silence that followed the final whistle said it all. C\u00f4te d’Ivoire will not defend their crown. The dream of a back to back title ended in the quarter-finals. The defending champions were knocked out of AFCON 2025, falling a 3-2 to Egypt on Saturday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220168,"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\/00680438:a335e2458282c842ecdc1d43b4329d0e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[9488,258,256,5958,6183,6555,8027,10578,4697,1218,7107,257,4687,41275,7128,254,6675],"class_list":["post-220167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-defense","tag-divoires","tag-egypt","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-join","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-salahs","tag-semis","tag-south-africa-today","tag-title"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680438:a335e2458282c842ecdc1d43b4329d0e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220167","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=220167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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