{"id":982111,"date":"2022-02-08T22:14:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T22:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/08\/drogba-aims-dig-at-liverpool-coach-after-senegal-afcon-win\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T22:14:29","slug":"drogba-aims-dig-at-liverpool-coach-after-senegal-afcon-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/08\/drogba-aims-dig-at-liverpool-coach-after-senegal-afcon-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Drogba aims dig at Liverpool coach after Senegal AFCON win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jurgen-klopp-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"Jurgen Klopp\" title=\"Jurgen Klopp\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jurgen Klopp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chelsea and Ivory Coast\u00a0legend, Didier Drogba, has taken a swipe at Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp after Senegal won the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON].<\/p>\n<p>The German gaffer before the 33rd edition of the AFCON\u00a0described the tournament as a \u201clittle tournament\u201d \u2013 a statement he later clarified as being sarcastic.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp came under intense pressure for his comments.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a video showing the wild celebrations in Dakar after Senegal\u2019s first-ever AFCON triumph, Drogba tweeted, \u201cA \u00ab\u00a0little tournament\u00a0\u00bb that means a lot for us Africans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>The final was contested between Senegal and Egypt, both led by Liverpool stars, Sadio Mane and Mohammed Salah \u2013 with Senegal edging it 4-2 on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The win means, Senegal have won their first continental title after Sadio Mane scored a crucial penalty kick having failed to convert one in regulation time to lift the trophy.<\/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=\"dJVrO3lVUv8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Resolving UTAG Strike: Should Gov\u2019t heed to UCC students\u2019 call for university closure? (8-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJVrO3lVUv8?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>Jurgen Klopp Chelsea and Ivory Coast\u00a0legend, Didier Drogba, has taken a swipe at Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp after Senegal won the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON]. The German gaffer before the 33rd edition of the AFCON\u00a0described the tournament as a \u201clittle tournament\u201d \u2013 a statement he later clarified as being sarcastic. Klopp came under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":982112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,4578,1763,4579,4580,1958,1281,309],"class_list":["post-982111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-aims","tag-coach","tag-dig","tag-drogba","tag-liverpool","tag-senegal","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982111","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=982111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}