{"id":44126,"date":"2025-06-26T01:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=44126"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:09:08","slug":"fifa-club-world-cup-african-clubs-booted-out-of-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/fifa-club-world-cup-african-clubs-booted-out-of-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Club World Cup : African clubs booted out of competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All four African teams have been booted out of the ongoing FIFA Club World Cup in the USA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 32 competition tournament <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">has<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> witness <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0an exciting pile of games among participating clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Al Ahly (Egypt) &#8211; 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One would have thought, in<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> final <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">game<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fluminese(Brazil) was going to be there for the taking but they failed to nick it past their opponents, drawing, 0-0. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7515973527815049\" data-ad-slot=\"5197133662\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All four African teams have been booted out of the ongoing FIFA Club World Cup in the USA. The 32 competition tournament has witness \u00a0an exciting pile of games among participating clubs. Al Ahly (Egypt) &#8211; With two draws against Inter Miami and Porto and a loss against Brazilian side, Palmeiras denied African giants an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-livestreams"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/African-teams.png?fit=502%2C458&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-btI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44142,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/fifa-club-world-cup-africa-teams-cash-out-from-group-stages\/","url_meta":{"origin":44126,"position":0},"title":"FIFA Club World Cup &#8211; Africa teams cash out from group stages","author":"Raphael Bannerman-Quartey","date":"June 28, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Four African clubs represented the continent in the ongoing FIFA Club World Cup in the United States of America. \u00a0 North African trio of Al Ahly (Egypt), Esperance de Tunis (Tunisia), Wydad Casablanca of Morocco and South Africa\u2019s Mamelodi Sundowns. 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