{"id":238096,"date":"2026-07-04T06:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-late-haaland-strike-ends-ivory-coasts-world-cup-dream\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T06:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:02:45","slug":"cote-divoire-late-haaland-strike-ends-ivory-coasts-world-cup-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-late-haaland-strike-ends-ivory-coasts-world-cup-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Late Haaland Strike Ends Ivory Coast&#8217;s World Cup Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Ivory Coast&#8217;s FIFA World Cup campaign came to a heartbreaking end on Tuesday after Erling Haaland struck a late winner to hand Norway a hard-fought 2-1 victory in their Round of 32 encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Elephants battled back bravely after falling behind but were undone just four minutes from time as Norway&#8217;s talisman ensured the Scandinavian side progressed to the last 16, where they will face Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Norway made the brighter start and were rewarded in the 39th minute when Antonio Nusa finished&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607010039.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast&#8217;s FIFA World Cup campaign came to a heartbreaking end on Tuesday after Erling Haaland struck a late winner to hand Norway a hard-fought 2-1 victory in their Round of 32 encounter. The Elephants battled back bravely after falling behind but were undone just four minutes from time as Norway&#8217;s talisman ensured the Scandinavian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,9611,5958,6183,6555,6674,5959,7421,7933,54766,6559,1218,8262,257,254,2080,5093],"class_list":["post-238096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coasts","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-cup","tag-divoire","tag-dream","tag-ends","tag-haaland","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-late","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238096","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=238096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}