{"id":36335,"date":"2026-03-21T17:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/36335\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:56:31","slug":"africa-cup-of-nations-morocco-crowned-champions-by-default-senegal-appeals-to-the-cas-in-lausanne-the-coach-is-a-member-of-the-military-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/36335\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Cup of Nations: Morocco crowned champions by default; Senegal appeals to the CAS in Lausanne; the coach is a member of the military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">Senegal decided on Tuesday to lodge an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), following the decision by the African Football Confederation (CAF) Appeals Committee to award the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final to Morocco.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">After an initial complaint was rejected by CAF\u2019s disciplinary committee, Morocco lodged an appeal with CAF\u2019s appeals committee. Against all expectations, the appeals committee ultimately ruled in Morocco\u2019s favour, sparking a wave of outrage in Senegal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">In an official statement, the Senegalese Football Federation denounced an \u201cunfair decision\u201d, reiterating its commitment to \u201cdefend the rights of Senegalese football by all legal means available\u201d. The country\u2019s sporting authorities believe that the principles of fair play have not been respected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senegal decided on Tuesday to lodge an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20389,94,20388,20387],"class_list":{"0":"post-36335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lausanne","8":"tag-africa-cup-of-nations","9":"tag-lausanne","10":"tag-morocco","11":"tag-senegal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116268458489395350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}