{"id":58872,"date":"2025-12-20T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=58872"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:08:27","slug":"blow-for-algeria-as-key-midfielder-ruled-out-of-cup-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/blow-for-algeria-as-key-midfielder-ruled-out-of-cup-of-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Blow for Algeria as Key Midfielder Ruled out of Cup of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria have been dealt a blow to their Africa Cup of Nations hopes with the withdrawal of key midfielder Houssem Aouar on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He was injured in training on Thursday, an Algerian football federation \u200cstatement said, \u200cand will \u200cbe \u2060replaced for the \u200ctournament in Morocco by Himad Abdelli from French club Angers. No details of the injury were given, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Aouar, who won a cap \u2060for France before switching his \u200cinternational allegiance to Algeria, \u200dplayed at \u200dthe last Cup of \u200dNations in the Ivory Coast two years ago where Algeria were shock early casualties.<\/p>\n<p>In Morocco, Algeria compete in Group E, starting against \u2060Sudan in Rabat on Wednesday before playing Burkina Faso and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Abdelli was a surprise omission from Algeria\u2019s initial 28-man squad list announced last week. The 26-year-old is French-born but has won four caps \u200cfor Algeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria have been dealt a blow to their Africa Cup of Nations hopes with the withdrawal of key midfielder Houssem Aouar on Friday. He was injured in training on Thursday, an Algerian football federation \u200cstatement said, \u200cand will \u200cbe \u2060replaced for the \u200ctournament in Morocco by Himad Abdelli from French club Angers. No details of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58874,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58872\/revisions\/58874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}