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Ivory Coast claimed Africa’s first victory at the 2026 FIFA World Cup after substitute Amad Diallo scored a dramatic late winner to secure a 1-0 triumph over Ecuador in Philadelphia on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Group E encounter appeared destined to end goalless before the Manchester United winger struck in the 90th minute, giving the African champions a crucial three points and ending a 12-year wait for a World Cup win.<\/p>\n
Diallo, who was introduced shortly before the hour mark, met a low cross from Wilfried…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Ivory Coast claimed Africa’s first victory at the 2026 FIFA World Cup after substitute Amad Diallo scored a dramatic late winner to secure a 1-0 triumph over Ecuador in Philadelphia on Sunday. The Group E encounter appeared destined to end goalless before the Manchester United winger struck in the 90th minute, giving the African champions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236400,"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":[1087],"tags":[35554,258,256,9611,5958,6183,6555,6674,5959,54619,7933,6559,1218,8262,257,254,2080,10099,9369,5093],"class_list":["post-236399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-12year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coasts","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-cup","tag-divoire","tag-diallos","tag-ends","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-late","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-victory","tag-wait","tag-world"],"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\/236399","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=236399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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