{"id":8402,"date":"2026-01-01T02:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8402"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:25:37","slug":"afcon-2025-equatorial-guinea-pair-banned-for-abusing-referee-after-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8402","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2025: Equatorial Guinea pair banned for abusing referee after defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players missed the National Thunder&#8217;s final group match against Algeria on Wednesday, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c8r3z7gk4lkt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">ended in a 3-1 defeat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the country&#8217;s football federation (Feguifut) has been fined $10,000 (\u00a37,435) after its technical staff and players made &#8220;excessive and abusive protests&#8221; against decisions by the officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mvoutou&#8217;s report indicated there was &#8220;a progressive deterioration in behaviour on the sidelines&#8221; after Equatorial Guinea defender Saul Coco scored an own goal in the 74th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Caf has fined Burkina Faso captain Bertrand Traore the sum of $10,000 (\u00a37,435) for &#8220;offensive remarks&#8221; made in a post-match interview after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c0l9rz88p57t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the Stallions lost 1-0 to Angola in Group E<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c98p566m3jdo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both players missed the Nation&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402"}],"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=8402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}