{"id":283344,"date":"2017-01-10T05:45:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T05:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=283344"},"modified":"2017-01-10T05:45:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T05:45:23","slug":"afcon-2017-moroccos-sofiane-boufal-to-miss-tournament-over-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=283344","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2017: Morocco&#8217;s Sofiane Boufal to miss tournament over injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Southampton midfielder Sofiane Boufal has withdrawn from Morocco&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations squad with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was sent home on Sunday from a training camp, with a replacement yet to be named.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boufal has left after examination of his injury showed he would not be capable of playing,&#8221; the national team said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco have already lost midfielders Younes Belhanda, Oussame Tannane and Watford&#8217;s Nordin Amrabat to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>They play Finland in a friendly on Tuesday before heading to the tournament in Gabon, where their first match is against the Democratic Republic of Congo in Oyem on 16 January.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton midfielder Sofiane Boufal has withdrawn from Morocco&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations squad with a knee injury. The 23-year-old was sent home on Sunday from a training camp, with a replacement yet to be named. &#8220;Boufal has left after examination of his injury showed he would not be capable of playing,&#8221; the national team said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[2748,2749,2750,2751],"class_list":["post-283344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-afcon-tournament","tag-soccer","tag-sofiane-boufal","tag-southampton-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}