{"id":879569,"date":"2025-12-21T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/2025-africa-cup-of-nations-every-mls-call-up-mlssoccer-com\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:23:22","slug":"2025-africa-cup-of-nations-every-mls-call-up-mlssoccer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/2025-africa-cup-of-nations-every-mls-call-up-mlssoccer-com\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Africa Cup of Nations: Every MLS call-up | MLSSoccer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div role=\"main\" id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Page main content\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div data-bucket-name=\"main-content-before-middle-adv\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations will feature eight MLS players representing seven clubs in the league.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The AFCON group stage begins on Dec. 21 and builds towards the Jan. 18 final at Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast enter as defending champions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Burkina Faso<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/ousseni-bouda-x9038\/\">Ousseni Bouda<\/a> (F, San Jose Earthquakes)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/georgi-minoungou\/\">Georgi Minoungou<\/a> (F, Seattle Sounders FC)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cameroon<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/nouhou\/\">Nouhou Tolo<\/a> (D, Seattle Sounders FC)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><strong>Gabon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ivory Coast<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/wilfried-zaha\/\">Wilfried Zaha<\/a> (F, Charlotte FC)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mali<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/mamadou-fofana\/\">Mamadou Fofana<\/a> (D, New England Revolution)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><strong>South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/chicago-fire-acquire-south-african-defender-mbekezeli-mbokazi\">Mbekezeli Mbokazi<\/a> (D, Chicago Fire FC)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><strong>Zimbabwe<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/teenage-hadebe\/\">Teenage Hadebe<\/a> (D, FC Cincinnati)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>FC Cincinnati<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Teenage Hadebe (D, Zimbabwe)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><strong>Charlotte FC<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Wilfried Zaha (F, Ivory Coast)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><strong>Chicago Fire FC<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Mbekezeli Mbokazi (D, South Africa)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><strong>LAFC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New England Revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>San Jose Earthquakes<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Ousseni Bouda (F, Burkina Faso)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><strong>Seattle Sounders FC<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Georgi Minoungou (F, Burkina Faso)<\/li>\n<li>Nouhou Tolo (D, Cameroon)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/2025-africa-cup-of-nations-every-mls-call-up\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Camellia Kucera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations will feature eight MLS players representing seven clubs in the league. The AFCON group stage begins on Dec. 21 and builds towards the Jan. 18 final at Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco. Ivory Coast enter as defending champions. Burkina Faso Ousseni Bouda (F, San Jose Earthquakes) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2084,2621,2005],"tags":[14302,15869],"class_list":{"0":"post-879569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"category-nations","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-africa","11":"tag-nations"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}