{"id":3695,"date":"2023-01-31T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:32:54","slug":"the-seventh-chan-the-knockout-phase-begins-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2023\/01\/31\/the-seventh-chan-the-knockout-phase-begins-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Seventh CHAN \u2013 The Knockout Phase Begins (Part 2)<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"864\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CAF_Logo_84.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CAF_Logo_84.jpg 864w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CAF_Logo_84-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CAF_Logo_84-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CAF_Logo_84-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CAF_Logo_84-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CAF_Logo_84-133x75.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 27<sup>th<\/sup> 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>S\u00e9n\u00e9gal End Mauritania\u2019s Dream<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mourning the loss of the Vice-President of the Mauritanian Football Federation, Pape Amghar Dieng, coach Amir Ed Dine Abdou saw his team exit Algeria\u2019s African Nations Championship (CHAN) at Annaba\u2019s May 19<sup>th<\/sup> Stadium to a determined S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, coached by Pape Bouna Thaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tight match was decided by a penalty scored after 33 minutes by Lamine Camara who slotted his penalty past Namori Diaw to the Mauritanian keeper\u2019s right to give S\u00e9n\u00e9gal the lead in the second quarter-final of the African Nations Championship (CHAN), the first to be hosted by Algeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A clumsy challenge on Moussa Ndaye by Mohamed Beibou, as he defended a corner by Chekh Sidib\u00e9, in a manner that was more akin to wrestling than football, gave Algerian referee, Loufti Bekouassa, no option but to point to the spot. S\u00e9n\u00e9gal was content to defend what they had and Mauritania produced few attacks requiring an intervention from the S\u00e9n\u00e9galese keeper, Pape Sy, although he was required to tip away a shot by Mamadou Sy on the hour. S\u00e9n\u00e9gal held on to advance to the semi-final to face Madagascar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 27th 2023) S\u00e9n\u00e9gal End Mauritania\u2019s Dream Mourning the loss of the Vice-President of the Mauritanian Football Federation, Pape Amghar<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}