{"id":401894,"date":"2026-01-08T11:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=401894"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:56:35","slug":"afcon-arab-teams-reach-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/afcon-arab-teams-reach-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON: Arab teams reach quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Three national teams from Arab countries have reached the quarterfinals of the Africa Cup of Nations being held in Morocco. The next round starts this Friday (9), and the final will take place on January 18 at Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the Arab teams Morocco, Egypt, and Algeria\u2014all from North Africa\u2014Mali, Senegal, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast also remain in contention and will play in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first match of this stage is between Mali and Senegal on Friday at 4:00 pm GMT in Tangier. Morocco and Cameroon face each other later that day at 7:00 pm GMT in Rabat. On Saturday (10), Algeria plays Nigeria in Marrakesh at 4:00 pm GMT. On the same day, Egypt takes on Ivory Coast in Agadir at 7:00 pm GMT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/el-kaabi-moroccos-new-star-of-african-cup\/\">El Kaabi: Morocco\u2019s new star of African Cup<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-401892\">\u00a9Gabriel Bouys\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco, Egypt, and Algeria are the three Arab national teams that have qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals. Matches of this stage begin on Friday (9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":401892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[55540,6833,2034,48455],"class_list":{"0":"post-401894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-afcon","9":"tag-africa-cup-of-nations","10":"tag-algeria","11":"tag-egypt-2"},"wps_subtitle":"Morocco, Egypt, and Algeria are the three Arab national teams that have qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals. Matches of this stage begin on Friday (9).","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}