{"id":60133,"date":"2026-01-19T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=60133"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:55:53","slug":"morocco-refer-afcon-champions-senegal-to-caf-and-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/morocco-refer-afcon-champions-senegal-to-caf-and-fifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco Refer AFCON Champions Senegal to CAF and FIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Moroccan Football Federation said Monday it has formally referred to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and FIFA incidents involving Senegalese players and supporters protesting a penalty to Morocco in the Africa Cup of Nations final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Senegal&#8217;s protest in added time of normal play during Sunday night&#8217;s clash in Rabat led to the match being paused for nearly 20 minutes as the players walked off the pitch in anger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some Senegalese fans at the opposite end of the stadium threw chairs and other objects and attempted to get onto the field of play.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The AFCON hosts&#8217; football federation said these acts &#8220;had a significant impact on the normal course of the match and on the players&#8217; performance&#8221;, with Morocco then missing the penalty that could have granted them their first African title in 50 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The federation said &#8220;it will resort to legal procedures&#8221; with CAF, the tournament&#8217;s organizing body, and FIFA &#8220;in order to rule on the withdrawal of the Senegalese national team from the field&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;as well as on the events that accompanied this decision&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It said the referee&#8217;s decision to grant the Atlas Lions a penalty was &#8220;deemed correct by unanimous opinion of specialists&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FIFA president Gianni Infantino condemned &#8220;some Senegal players&#8221; for the &#8220;unacceptable scenes&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Senegal scored the game&#8217;s only goal just four minutes into extra time after the players returned to the pitch following an appeal from star forward Sadio Mane.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Several Moroccan media outlets on Monday criticized Senegal for a lack of fair play and unsporting behavior.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moroccan Football Federation said Monday it has formally referred to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and FIFA incidents involving Senegalese players and supporters protesting a penalty to Morocco in the Africa Cup of Nations final. Senegal&#8217;s protest in added time of normal play during Sunday night&#8217;s clash in Rabat led to the match &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60133","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\/60133","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=60133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60135,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60133\/revisions\/60135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}