{"id":227759,"date":"2026-03-22T01:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/morocco-senegal-caf-faces-pressure-as-guinea-contests-moroccos-1976-afcon-win\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T01:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:32:01","slug":"morocco-senegal-caf-faces-pressure-as-guinea-contests-moroccos-1976-afcon-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/morocco-senegal-caf-faces-pressure-as-guinea-contests-moroccos-1976-afcon-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\/Senegal: CAF Faces Pressure As Guinea Contests Morocco&#8217;s 1976 Afcon Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Guinea Football Federation has urged the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to review the 1976 AFCON outcome, citing Morocco&#8217;s walkout and a recent ruling against Senegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The call follows CAF&#8217;s decision to overturn the 2025 AFCON result as a sanction on Senegal for a walkout, despite winning on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">CAF stripped Senegal of the 2025 title 58 days after the tournament, declaring hosts Morocco as champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Guinea said similar disciplinary standards should apply to historical&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guinea Football Federation has urged the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to review the 1976 AFCON outcome, citing Morocco&#8217;s walkout and a recent ruling against Senegal. The call follows CAF&#8217;s decision to overturn the 2025 AFCON result as a sanction on Senegal for a walkout, despite winning on the pitch. CAF stripped Senegal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227760,"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\/00680977:22c45641d4fdc5ccde9a62b8fe92a2e2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[9488,258,256,3742,19623,5080,4715,1124,17446,53972,257,15578,254,6660],"class_list":["post-227759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-contests","tag-faces","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-moroccos","tag-moroccosenegal","tag-news","tag-pressure","tag-south-africa-today","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680977:22c45641d4fdc5ccde9a62b8fe92a2e2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227759","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=227759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}