{"id":15003,"date":"2025-11-11T09:07:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/atletico-trio-to-miss-argentinas-friendly-with-angola-over-vaccine-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:23","slug":"atletico-trio-to-miss-argentinas-friendly-with-angola-over-vaccine-issue","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/atletico-trio-to-miss-argentinas-friendly-with-angola-over-vaccine-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico trio to miss Argentina&#8217;s friendly with Angola over vaccine issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina will be without Atletico Madrid trio Julian Alvarez, Nahuel Molina and Giuliano Simeone for Friday&#8217;s friendly in Angola after they failed to complete procedures linked to the yellow fever vaccine, Argentina&#8217;s Football Association (AFA said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease found in some parts of Africa and South America, and travellers to those regions are required to be vaccinated to prevent infection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The players did not complete in time the health procedures related to the yellow fever vaccine, which is required to enter Angola,&#8221; the AFA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>World champions Argentina, who have already secured their spot at next year&#8217;s World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, face Angola in Luanda.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15004,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-15003","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Argentina will be without Atletico Madrid trio Julian Alvarez, Nahuel Molina and Giuliano Simeone for Friday's friendly in Angola","published_date":"2025-11-11 11:07:23","news_description":"Argentina will be without Atletico Madrid trio Julian Alvarez, Nahuel Molina and Giuliano Simeone for Friday's friendly in Angola","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19425,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15003\/revisions\/19425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}