{"id":1782,"date":"2024-01-18T04:12:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T04:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.24hscore.com\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2024-01-18T04:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T04:12:49","slug":"senegals-national-team-defender-left-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/football\/senegals-national-team-defender-left-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"The defender from Senegal&#8217;s national team has departed from the AFCON squad due to a family tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senegal&#8217;s national team defender <a href=\"https:\/\/24hscore.org\/football\/player\/c-kouyate\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/24hscore.org\/football\/player\/c-kouyate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheikhou Kouyat\u00e9 <\/a>has left the Teranga Lions&#8217; camp during the Africa Cup of Nations following the tragic death of his father on Tuesday, January 16. It is currently uncertain whether the vice-captain of the Teranga Lions will return for the team&#8217;s upcoming match. The Senegal Football Federation has expressed heartfelt condolences to Kouyat\u00e9 and his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe president of the Senegalese Football Federation, Mr. Augustin Senghor, the members of the executive committee, the coach of the national football team, Mr. Aliou Cisse, the players of the national football team, and the football family deeply regret and feel the pain to inform you of the death of Mr. Bangiougou Kouyate, father of Cheikhou Kouyate, a member of the Senegal national team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Get real-time <a href=\"https:\/\/24hscore.org\/football\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">football scores<\/a> here!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn this painful circumstance, the Senegalese Football Federation presents its most saddened condolences to Cheikhou Kouyate, who was also authorized to leave the national team gathering today to attend the funeral in Dakar,\u201d their statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senegal initiated their Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a commanding victory over Gambia (3:0). On January 19, the Teranga Lions are scheduled to face Cameroon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal&#8217;s national team defender Cheikhou Kouyat\u00e9 has left the Teranga Lions&#8217; camp during the Africa Cup of Nations following the tragic death of his father on Tuesday, January 16. It is currently uncertain whether the vice-captain of the Teranga Lions will return for the team&#8217;s upcoming match. The Senegal Football Federation has expressed heartfelt condolences&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","rank_math_description":"Senegal's defender Cheikhou Kouyat\u00e9 left the Africa Cup of Nations camp due to his father's tragic death.\n\n\n\n\n\n","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[510,740,36,108,92,35,62,739],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-afcon","tag-cheikhou-kouyate","tag-football","tag-football-2024","tag-football-news","tag-football2024","tag-footballnews","tag-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}