{"id":228406,"date":"2026-03-25T01:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/africa-guinea-denies-challenging-1976-afcon-result\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T01:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:38:53","slug":"africa-guinea-denies-challenging-1976-afcon-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/africa-guinea-denies-challenging-1976-afcon-result\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Guinea Denies Challenging 1976 Afcon Result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Guinean Football Federation has denied reports that it has initiated legal proceedings to challenge the result of the 1976 Africa Cup of Nations, saying the claims circulating on social media are false and misleading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In a statement issued on Sunday, March 22, 2026, the federation said it had not filed any case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport or the Confederation of African Football regarding the historic tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The federation said recent reports had wrongly suggested that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240652.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 Guinean Football Federation has denied reports that it has initiated legal proceedings to challenge the result of the 1976 Africa Cup of Nations, saying the claims circulating on social media are false and misleading. In a statement issued on Sunday, March 22, 2026, the federation said it had not filed any case before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228407,"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":[1118],"tags":[9488,258,256,15314,7651,4715,1124,257,9640,254],"class_list":["post-228406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenging","tag-denies","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-news","tag-result","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\/228406","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=228406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}