{"id":23927,"date":"2025-12-27T11:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/afcon-2025-mohamed-salah-and-kanu-among-best-players-never-to-win-afcon\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T11:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:38:35","slug":"afcon-2025-mohamed-salah-and-kanu-among-best-players-never-to-win-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/afcon-2025-mohamed-salah-and-kanu-among-best-players-never-to-win-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2025: Mohamed Salah and Kanu among best players never to win Afcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of African football&#8217;s greatest players never got their hands on the Africa Cup of Nations trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the 2025 tournament under way in Morocco, BBC Sport Africa&#8217;s Ian Williams profiles five big names who missed out the continent&#8217;s biggest prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Presenter\/Producer: Ian Williams<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Edited by: Jenna Abaakouk<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/c1dz1d7r9vno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of African football&#8217;s greatest players never got their hands on the Africa Cup of Nations trophy. With the 2025 tournament under way in Morocco, BBC Sport Africa&#8217;s Ian Williams profiles five big names who missed out the continent&#8217;s biggest prize. Presenter\/Producer: Ian Williams Edited by: Jenna Abaakouk Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23929,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions\/23929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}