{"id":139983,"date":"2026-03-18T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/139983\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:02:08","slug":"%f0%9f%93%b8-morocco-declared-africa-cup-of-nations-winners-twitter-loses-its-mind-%f0%9f%98%b3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/139983\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8 Morocco declared Africa Cup of Nations winners: Twitter loses its mind \ud83d\ude33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We lived through this legendary moment.<\/p>\n<p>This Tuesday evening, an earthquake shook the world of football!<\/p>\n<p>Two months after the Africa Cup of Nations final, won 1-0 by Senegal against Morocco,<a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/fr\/news\/officiel-tremblement-de-terre-le-senegal-perd-son-titre-le-maroc-champion-dafrique-42573939\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Confederation of African Football (CAF) released a statement announcing that its appeals committee has decided to strip the Lions of Teranga of their African champion title;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;the Confederation of African Football (CAF) released a statement announcing that its appeals committee has decided to strip the Lions of Teranga of their African champion title&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> the Confederation of African Football (CAF) released a statement announcing that its appeals committee has decided to strip the Lions of Teranga of their African champion title<\/a>, declaring them &#8220;forfeit&#8221; after they left the field for more than ten minutes following a penalty awarded to Morocco in the dying moments of the match, and to grant the Moroccan team a 3-0 victory by default.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For now, the AFCON title thus returns to Morocco!<\/p>\n<p>An absurd and historic situation that made Twitter explode.<\/p>\n<p>A selection of the best reactions to this sequence that will go down in history:<\/p>\n<p>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/fr\/news\/le-maroc-declare-vainqueur-de-la-can-twitter-pete-son-crane-42575695\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:You can read the original version in \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;You can read the original version in \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 here.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">You can read the original version in \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We lived through this legendary moment. This Tuesday evening, an earthquake shook the world of football! Two months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[146,2822,41249,165,39001],"class_list":["post-139983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-morocco","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-confederation-of-african-football","tag-lions-of-teranga","tag-morocco","tag-twitter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116249607807161445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}