{"id":27587,"date":"2026-03-29T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/senegal-parade-afcon-trophy-before-peru-friendly-despite-being-stripped-of-title-by-caf\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:30:26","slug":"senegal-parade-afcon-trophy-before-peru-friendly-despite-being-stripped-of-title-by-caf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/senegal-parade-afcon-trophy-before-peru-friendly-despite-being-stripped-of-title-by-caf\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal parade Afcon trophy before Peru friendly despite being stripped of title by Caf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before the match against Peru, captain Kalidou Koulibaly and his team-mates entered the pitch with the Afcon trophy for a lap of honour, before Koulibaly and goalkeeper Edouard Mendy went up to the stadium&#8217;s presidential box to place the trophy there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senegal also played in a kit with two stars above their badge to signify having won two Afcon titles &#8211; the disputed 2025 tournament and their previous 2021 title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They beat Peru 2-0 following goals from Nicolas Jackson, who is on loan at Bayern Munich from Chelsea, and Crystal Palace&#8217;s Ismaila Sarr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The friendly in Paris was Senegal&#8217;s first match since the Afcon final and forms part of their preparations for the World Cup, which starts in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have been drawn in the same group as France, Norway and either Bolivia or Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cqxl0gj9787o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the match against Peru, captain Kalidou Koulibaly and his team-mates entered the pitch with the Afcon trophy for a lap of honour, before Koulibaly and goalkeeper Edouard Mendy went up to the stadium&#8217;s presidential box to place the trophy there. Senegal also played in a kit with two stars above their badge to signify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27587","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=27587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27589,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27587\/revisions\/27589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}