{"id":21216,"date":"2025-12-17T08:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/senegal-defender-camara-ruled-out-of-nations-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:20","slug":"senegal-defender-camara-ruled-out-of-nations-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/senegal-defender-camara-ruled-out-of-nations-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal defender Camara ruled out of Nations Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Senegal full back Ilay Camara has been ruled out of the Africa Cup of Nations finals due to injury, the country&#8217;s football federation said on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div>There is also concern over striker Assane Diao, who suffered an injury playing for Como against AS Roma in Serie A on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Como coach Cesc Fabregas said he had asked Senegal not to select the 20-year-old for the tournament in Morocco, where they are in Group D with Benin, Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Senegal\u2019s first game is against Botswana in Tangier next Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14987,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-21216","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Senegal\u2019s first game is against Botswana in Tangier next Tuesday.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Senegal\u2019s first game is against Botswana in Tangier next Tuesday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21216","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\/21216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24970,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21216\/revisions\/24970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}