{"id":1924,"date":"2024-01-19T06:08:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T06:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.24hscore.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2024-01-19T06:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T06:09:24","slug":"the-equatorial-guinea-forward-made-history-at-the-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/football\/the-equatorial-guinea-forward-made-history-at-the-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Equatorial Guinea forward accomplished a significant milestone at the AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Equatorial Guinea national team&#8217;s forward, Emilio Nsue, has made history at the Africa Cup of Nations by becoming the most prolific player to score a hat-trick in the tournament. This remarkable achievement occurred when Nsue was 34 years and 110 days old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playing for the Spanish club Intercity in the third division, Nsue secured this milestone by scoring three goals against Guinea-Bissau. His noteworthy performance played a significant role in his team&#8217;s victory with a final score of 4-2, with Nsue finding the back of the net in the 21st, 51st, and 61st minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Live<a href=\"https:\/\/24hscore.org\/football\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> football scores<\/a> delivered to you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3 &#8211; At the age of 34 years and 110 days, Equatorial Guinea&#39;s Emilio Nsue is the oldest player in AFCON history to score a hat-trick. Historic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JyK1Z7Uf2p\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JyK1Z7Uf2p<\/a><\/p>&mdash; OptaJean (@OptaJean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaJean\/status\/1748006171347210565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, Nsue accomplished the first hat-trick in the AFCON in 15 years and 362 days. The previous instance of a player scoring three goals in a single match in the tournament was Soufiane Alloudi from Morocco, who achieved this feat in a game against Namibia in January 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">15 \u2013 Equatorial Guinea\u2019s Emilio Nsue has scored the first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAF_Online?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@caf_online<\/a> AFCON hat-trick in 15 years, 362 days, since Soufiane Alloudi did so for Morocco against Namibia in January 2008. Rarity. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TotalEnergiesAFCON2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TotalEnergiesAFCON2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HZw71lVxwg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/HZw71lVxwg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Inmdj7xpMP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Inmdj7xpMP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaJoe\/status\/1748008093739323635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After two rounds, Equatorial Guinea has accumulated four points. Their upcoming and final group-stage match will be against Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-7d367ae7-7fff-d16d-2084-766752408a46\"><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:2.1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt\"><\/p><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;background-color: transparent;vertical-align: baseline\"><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equatorial Guinea national team&#8217;s forward, Emilio Nsue, has made history at the Africa Cup of Nations by becoming the most prolific player to score a hat-trick in the tournament. This remarkable achievement occurred when Nsue was 34 years and 110 days old. Playing for the Spanish club Intercity in the third division, Nsue secured this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1929,"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":"Emilio Nsue from the Equatorial Guinea national team has rewritten AFCON history as the most prolific player to score a hat-trick in the tournament.","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[510,813,36,108,92,35,62],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-afcon","tag-africa-cup","tag-football","tag-football-2024","tag-football-news","tag-football2024","tag-footballnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","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=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}