{"id":206807,"date":"2020-04-03T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206807"},"modified":"2020-04-03T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:04:11","slug":"samuel-etoo-still-holds-afcon-highest-goals-record-caf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206807","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Eto\u2019o still holds AFCON highest goals record &#8211; CAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) has confirmed that no player in the continent scored more goals in the history of Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) than Cameroon legend, Samuel Eto\u2019o.<br \/>\nCAF made this known in a post on its official website on Thursday.<br \/>\nEto\u2019o, who retired from football in 2019, scored a record of 18 goals in six AFCON editions he played for The Indomitable Lions.<br \/>\nHe netted 56 goals in 118 caps for Cameroon national team.<br \/>\nThe striker is three goals ahead of Cote d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s Laurent Pokou, who has 14 goals.<br \/>\nEto\u2019o has played for big clubs in Europe, including Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, and Inter Milan.<br \/>\nThe 39-year-old is widely considered as one of the greatest African footballers ever.<br \/>\nHe has won several trophies, including Champions League, AFCON, LaLiga, Serie A, Copa del Rey, Coppa Italia, FIFA Club World Cup, Supercoppa Italiana, Olympic Gold Medal, among others.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) has confirmed that no player in the continent scored more goals in the history of Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) than Cameroon legend, Samuel Eto\u2019o. CAF made this known in a post on its official website on Thursday. Eto\u2019o, who retired from football in 2019, scored a record of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,8496,12530],"class_list":["post-206807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-caf","tag-samuel-etoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}