{"id":41115,"date":"2025-12-21T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/12\/21\/i-barely-slept-last-night-excitement-builds-in-morocco-ahead-of-afcon\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:02:37","slug":"i-barely-slept-last-night-excitement-builds-in-morocco-ahead-of-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/12\/21\/i-barely-slept-last-night-excitement-builds-in-morocco-ahead-of-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u00a0I barely slept last night\u00a0\u00bb Excitement builds in Morocco ahead of Afcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It&rsquo;s a big day for African football fans, with the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations set to kick off in Morocco. Hosts the Atlas Lions are the big favorite, but they&rsquo;ll face stiff competition from powerhouses like Senegal. The four-week tournament is seen as a high-profile dress rehearsal for the 2030 World Cup, which Morocco will co-host. Ahead of the opening match, we spoke to Moroccan sports journalist Amine El Amri about teams to watch, social unrest surrounding Morocco&rsquo;s sports investment, and the controvercial decision to move the tournament to a four-year cycle.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s a big day for African football fans, with the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations set to kick off in Morocco. Hosts the Atlas Lions are the big favorite, but they&rsquo;ll face stiff competition from powerhouses like Senegal. The four-week tournament is seen as a high-profile dress rehearsal for the 2030 World Cup, which Morocco &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-41115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}