{"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\/2017\/01\/afcon-2017-moroccos-sofiane-boufal-to-miss-tournament-over-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2017: Morocco’s Sofiane Boufal to miss tournament over injury"},"content":{"rendered":"
Southampton midfielder Sofiane Boufal has withdrawn from Morocco’s Africa Cup of Nations squad with a knee injury.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old was sent home on Sunday from a training camp, with a replacement yet to be named.<\/p>\n
“Boufal has left after examination of his injury showed he would not be capable of playing,” the national team said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Morocco have already lost midfielders Younes Belhanda, Oussame Tannane and Watford’s Nordin Amrabat to injuries.<\/p>\n
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
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Southampton midfielder Sofiane Boufal has withdrawn from Morocco’s Africa Cup of Nations squad with a knee injury.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. “Boufal has left after examination of his injury showed he would not be capable of playing,” the national team said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[2748,2749,2750,2751],"yoast_head":"\n