{"id":155743,"date":"2026-01-19T16:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=155743"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:19:31","slug":"the-panenka-that-broke-moroccos-afcon-dream%f0%9f%98%b1%f0%9f%a4%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=155743","title":{"rendered":"The Panenka That Broke Morocco\u2019s AFCON Dream\ud83d\ude31\ud83e\udd2f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6MgbL4KocUQ?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The AFCON final turned into the toughest moment of Brahim D\u00edaz\u2019s career. In the 95th minute, Morocco were awarded a crucial penalty in a historic match, as the hosts were chasing their first AFCON title in nearly 50 years. Under immense pressure, D\u00edaz stepped up as the taker. He chose a risky Panenka, but the attempt failed to find the net. Moments later, cameras caught Trent Alexander-Arnold\u2019s stunned reaction, and the clip quickly went viral online. The impact was immediate on social media. A pinned post about D\u00edaz that had around 5,000 comments before the final suddenly exploded to hundreds of thousands, filled with harsh criticism and online abuse.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n#football #footballnews #soccer #barcelonafootball #realmadrid #ronaldo<br \/>\n#ucl #championsleague #premierleague #laliga #bundesliga #seriea<br \/>\n#worldcup #fifaworldcup #transfernews #footballhighlights<br \/>\n#footballdaily #footballupdates #footballfans #sportsnews<br \/>\n#epl #ligue1 #fifa #uefa #goal #footballanalysis<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6MgbL4KocUQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFCON final turned into the toughest moment of Brahim D\u00edaz\u2019s career. In the 95th minute, Morocco were awarded a crucial penalty in a historic match, as the hosts were&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10448,"featured_media":155744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}