{"id":16837,"date":"2026-01-29T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=16837"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:46:04","slug":"pape-thiaw-senegal-manager-given-five-match-ban-after-afcon-final-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=16837","title":{"rendered":"Pape Thiaw: Senegal manager given five-match ban after Afcon final chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brahim Diaz&#8217;s &#8216;Panenka&#8217; penalty was saved by Senegal keeper Edouard Mendy, then referee Jean-Jacques Ndala immediately blew the whistle for full-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pape Gueye scored the winning goal in the fourth minute of extra time to seal a second Afcon triumph in five years for Senegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senegal forwards Iliman Ndiaye and Sarr received two-match bans for &#8220;unsporting behaviour towards the referee&#8221;, while the Senegal Football Federation (FSF) was fined $615,000 (\u00a3444,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morocco forward Ismael Saibari was given a three-match ban and fined $100,000 (\u00a372,000), while defender Hakimi was handed a two-match ban, with one game suspended for 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bans for Thiaw and the four players relate to Caf matches only and will not impact preparation for the 2026 Fifa World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Pape #Thiaw #Senegal #manager #fivematch #ban #Afcon #final #chaos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brahim Diaz&#8217;s &#8216;Pan&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}