{"id":749835,"date":"2022-01-14T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T16:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/cameroon-become-first-country-to-book-last-16-place\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T16:29:54","slug":"cameroon-become-first-country-to-book-last-16-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/cameroon-become-first-country-to-book-last-16-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon become first country to book last 16 place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cameroon-vs-Ethiopia-650x450-1.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Cameroon-vs-Ethiopia-650x450-1\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Cameroon, the host nation of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON], became the first side to qualify for the knock-out stage of the competition after beating Ethiopia 4-1 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Indomitable Lions once again had to come back from a goal down after the East Africans netted early on in the game through Dawa Hotessa.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon captain Vincent Aboubakar scored a quickfire brace sandwiched between goals from Toko Ekambii to extend his lead atop of the scorers\u2019 chart.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts are the only side that has scored more than one goal in a game of the ongoing competition and now boast of a strong 4-goal difference.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Cameroon beat Burkina Faso 2-1 in the opening game of the tournament played on Sunday, January 9.<\/p>\n<p>The side\u2019s results so far will go a long way in boosting fans\u2019 hope of a second title in five years, having won the 2017 edition.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"WNo4VmSZeYc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two dead and one injured after police officer drove taxi into traders on pavement \u2013 Adom TV(13-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WNo4VmSZeYc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon, the host nation of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON], became the first side to qualify for the knock-out stage of the competition after beating Ethiopia 4-1 on Thursday. The Indomitable Lions once again had to come back from a goal down after the East Africans netted early on in the game through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1720,711,1721,1722],"class_list":{"0":"post-749835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-book","9":"tag-cameroon","10":"tag-country","11":"tag-place"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}