{"id":187370,"date":"2024-12-27T12:13:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-tunisia-defender-montassar-talbi-eyes-world-cup-milestone\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:13:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:13:28","slug":"africa-tunisia-defender-montassar-talbi-eyes-world-cup-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-tunisia-defender-montassar-talbi-eyes-world-cup-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Tunisia Defender Montassar Talbi Eyes World Cup Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em>Tunisia&#8217;s national team defender Montassar Talbi has set his sights on leading the Carthage Eagles to their third consecutive FIFA World Cup appearance and, for the first time in the nation&#8217;s history, advancing beyond the group stage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Reflecting on his journey and Tunisia&#8217;s recent progress, Talbi shared his aspirations and insights into the team&#8217;s resurgence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">For Talbi, the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022\u2122 was a bittersweet experience. Tunisia&#8217;s 1-0 victory over eventual finalists France was a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412270089.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisia&#8217;s national team defender Montassar Talbi has set his sights on leading the Carthage Eagles to their third consecutive FIFA World Cup appearance and, for the first time in the nation&#8217;s history, advancing beyond the group stage. Reflecting on his journey and Tunisia&#8217;s recent progress, Talbi shared his aspirations and insights into the team&#8217;s resurgence. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":187371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,6674,22636,4342,12070,50276,257,254,50277,4703,653,5093],"class_list":["post-187370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-defender","tag-eyes","tag-milestone","tag-montassar","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talbi","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}