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  • 2019-06-25 (xsd:date)
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  • No, this photo does not show Algeria’s goalkeeper training for the AFCON game against Kenya (en)
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  • A Facebook post, claiming to show Algeria's goalkeeper performing an impressive feat of gymnastics ahead of last Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) game against Kenya, has been making the rounds online. In fact, it doesn’t show Algeria’s goalkeeper at all -- it’s a doctored version of a photo of Ivory Coast player Boubacar Barry, and it was taken during training for the World Cup in Brazil back in 2014. On Sunday, Algeria thrashed Kenya 2-0 in their Group C match, which was their opening into the AFCON tournament hosted in Egypt. The results were disheartening to football enthusiasts in Kenya. The post, which we’ve archived here , was published on June 23 on Group Kenya , a public Facebook group with more than two million followers. It racked up more than 3,000 reactions and comments. The post suggests that the Kenyan team could never have won faced with the Spiderman-like skills of Algeria’s goalkeeper Raïs M'Bolhi. I was happy about harambee stars until I saw this Algerian goalkeeper doing his training. Harambee stars, it was a wonderful tour, journey mercies as you come back home. Karibuni tuendelee kusambaza noti mpya (welcome back home, we continue circulating the new currency notes), the caption reads. President Uhuru Kenyatta announced this month that Kenya would be introducing new bank notes in a bid to fight corruption and money-laundering. Kenyans must return any 1,000-shilling notes by October 1. A screenshot of the misleading Facebook post, taken on June 25, 2019 In fact, a reverse image search on TinEye revealed that the image used in the Facebook post was taken back in 2014 -- and it does not show the Algerian goalkeeper at all. The original photo was taken by AFP photographer Issouf Sanogo in Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil, during training for the FIFA World Cup. You can find it here on the AFP Forum website. Screenshot taken on June 25, 2019 of AFP Forum showing the original image of Ivory Coast player Boubacar Barry Ivory Coast's national football team goalkeeper Boubacar Barry stretches on the crossbar as he takes part in a team training session at Aguas de Lindoia on June 9, 2014, ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the caption reads. As you can see from comparing the two photos, the one used in the Facebook post has been cropped and blurred. A ball has been added digitally to make the footballer’s antics look even more impressive. Sanogo confirmed that his photo had been manipulated. Absolutely false -- there was no ball, he said. This is Kenya's sixth appearance in the AFCON tournament, with the last one being in Tunisia in 2004. (en)
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