{"id":3705,"date":"2021-12-23T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2021\/12\/23\/two-members-of-bruno-lages-wolves-squad-called-up-for-afcon-duty\/"},"modified":"2021-12-23T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T23:00:43","slug":"two-members-of-bruno-lages-wolves-squad-called-up-for-afcon-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2021\/12\/23\/two-members-of-bruno-lages-wolves-squad-called-up-for-afcon-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Two members of Bruno Lage\u2019s Wolves squad called up for AFCON duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two members of Bruno Lage\u2019s Wolverhampton Wanderers squad have, on Thursday, been called up for international duty ahead of the fast-approaching African Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<h2>PL hit hard<\/h2>\n<p>The AFCON has, of course, proven headline news in the Premier League over the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This comes with a host of the division\u2019s clubs expected to be deprived of key performers for up to a month, amid the battle for international supremacy between Africa\u2019s top footballing nations.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the more high-profile departures for the Cameroon-based tournament will be the likes of Liverpool pair Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, as well as Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt, Ghana and more, though, may yet be made to wait longer than they had anticipated for such players to arrive, as tensions continue to mount between club and international federations:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Growing African Cup of Nations row: The umbrella organisation for the world\u2019s domestic leagues wrote today to FIFA &amp; CAF saying players won\u2019t be released for Afcon until January 3 by clubs who have games before then.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA had stipulated the release date should be December 27<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Harris (@RobHarris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobHarris\/status\/1474091130228723716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Boly &amp; Saiss called<\/h2>\n<p>Whether the AFCON\u2019s stars are released later this month or early next, though, as alluded to above, those called up for the tournament will be joined by a pair of members of Bruno Lage\u2019s Wolves squad.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the back of confirmation that both Romain Saiss and Willy Boly have been selected to take part in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Saiss is expected to link up with Morocco on the back of Wolves\u2019 meeting with Arsenal on the 28th of December, with Boly, fitness-permitting, to do likewise with the Ivory Coast, too:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">African Cup of Nations call-ups for Romain Saiss and Willy Boly, as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Saiss will join up with Morocco after Wolves\u2019 trip to Arsenal on the 28th. Boly\u2019s involvement with Ivory Coast thought to be in doubt due to fitness\/injury issues. Being assessed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WWFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Spiers (@TimSpiers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimSpiers\/status\/1474137207757758473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/wolves-star-takes-to-social-media-to-confirm-injury-before-watford\/\">Wolves star takes to social media to confirm injury before Watford<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/defensive-trio-ruled-out-but-two-stars-could-return-newcastle-team-news-before-man-united\/\">Defensive trio ruled out, but two stars could return: Newcastle team news before Man United<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Two members of Bruno Lage\u2019s Wolverhampton Wanderers squad have, on Thursday, been called up for international duty ahead of the fast-approaching African Cup of Nations. PL hit hard The AFCON has, of course, proven headline news in the Premier League over the last couple of weeks. This comes with a host of the division\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}