{"id":21211,"date":"2024-01-22T17:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/21211\/guinea-fa-urge-fans-calm\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:22:54","slug":"guinea-fa-urge-fans-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=21211","title":{"rendered":"Guinea FA urge fans calm after six die in AFCON celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea FA urge fans calm after six die in AFCON celebrations\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Guinean Football Federation has asked fans to tone down their celebrations after six people were killed during Friday&#39;s 1-0 win over Gambia in the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Jubilant Guinean fans took to the country&#39;s streets after a victory that put coach Kaba Diawara&#39;s team on the verge of reaching the round of 16 of the tournament in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Federation released a <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/video\/\"   title=\"video\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">video<\/a> of the team asking supporters to celebrate responsibly as they prepare to face Senegal in their final group match on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is important is that our supporters and the public celebrate in a very measured way,&#8221; the Federation&#39;s media manager, Amadou Makadji, told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have to be very careful not to put themselves in danger, because the aim of <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a> is to bring joy and not leave families in mourning.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Guinea is on the verge of reaching the round of 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations. <cite>MB Media\/Imago<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A draw against Senegal would send Guinea to the round of 16 and they could qualify even if they lose depending on other results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don&#39;t want the dead to mourn, so we call on everyone to celebrate but take care of themselves so that nothing happens to them,\u201d Makadji said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuinea is a country where people are very, very passionate about football and where they experience football like nowhere else in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea FA urge fans calm after six die in AFCON celebrations\u060c The Guinean Football Federation has asked fans to tone down their celebrations after six people were killed during Friday&#39;s 1-0 win over Gambia in the Africa Cup of Nations. Jubilant Guinean fans took to the country&#39;s streets after a victory that put coach Kaba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5516,6607,9587,8148,190,1484,9586],"class_list":["post-21211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-afcon","tag-calm","tag-celebrations","tag-die","tag-fans","tag-guinea","tag-urge"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21213,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211\/revisions\/21213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}