{"id":1413,"date":"2024-02-12T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2024-02-12T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T14:02:45","slug":"ivory-coast-won-the-afcon-title-against-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/ivory-coast-won-the-afcon-title-against-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast won the AFCON title against Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"letter-spacing:2px\">The Ivory Coast complete their own tournament of comebacks to beat Nigeria 2-1 in the 2023 AFCON final in Abidjan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Elephants of Ivory Coast came from behind to complete a dramatic recovery and redemption on home soil at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations as they claimed a third continental title by beating Nigeria 2-1 in Abidjan on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Super Eagles had taken a first-half lead, against the run of play, through their captain William Troost-Ekong, but goals from Franck Kessie with Sebastien Haller scored a dramatic late winner as hosts Ivory Coast fought back to beat Victor Osimhen&#8217;s Nigeria 2-1 in Sunday&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations final and complete the most remarkable of major tournament turnarounds by claiming their third continental title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video autoplay controls loop src=\"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WhatsApp-Video-2024-02-12-at-13.58.36_b9cbc957-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are the champions of Africa. Long live the Elephants,\u201d jubilant Ivorian fan Siaka Kouassi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo team was better and we deserve to win against Nigeria. We are ready to party all night long,\u201d a sweaty Maimouna Yaya added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ivory Coast complete their own tournament of comebacks to beat Nigeria 2-1 in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,11],"tags":[50,51],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GGHkgaYXAAERCUJ.jpeg",2048,1372,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GGHkgaYXAAERCUJ-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GGHkgaYXAAERCUJ-300x201.jpeg",300,201,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GGHkgaYXAAERCUJ-768x515.jpeg",640,429,true],"large":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GGHkgaYXAAERCUJ-1024x686.jpeg",640,429,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GGHkgaYXAAERCUJ-1536x1029.jpeg",1536,1029,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GGHkgaYXAAERCUJ.jpeg",2048,1372,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GGHkgaYXAAERCUJ-1024x686.jpeg",1024,686,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GGHkgaYXAAERCUJ-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GGHkgaYXAAERCUJ-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"williamsfeed","author_link":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/author\/mickeybold7\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/category\/africa\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Africa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}