{"id":190104,"date":"2025-01-31T01:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-egypt-coach-hossam-hassan-bracing-himself-for-difficult-competition\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T01:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:51:38","slug":"africa-egypt-coach-hossam-hassan-bracing-himself-for-difficult-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-egypt-coach-hossam-hassan-bracing-himself-for-difficult-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Egypt Coach, Hossam Hassan Bracing Himself for Difficult Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Head coach of the Egyptian national team, Hossam Hassan is bracing himself for what he describes to be a &#8220;difficult competition&#8221; in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Hassan was reacting to the draw of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations held in Rabat on Monday evening where the record holders, with seven titles to their name were drawn in Group B against South Africa, Angola and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Pharaohs&#8217; last TotalEnergies CAF AFCON title was 15-years ago when they won the competition in Angola, with the coveted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501280081.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach of the Egyptian national team, Hossam Hassan is bracing himself for what he describes to be a &#8220;difficult competition&#8221; in Morocco. Hassan was reacting to the draw of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations held in Rabat on Monday evening where the record holders, with seven titles to their name were drawn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":190105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661278:7db86882f6ef9cd3073ebd5ac83646f7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,27716,7346,6795,10795,4697,415,16237,43038,257,254],"class_list":["post-190104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bracing","tag-coach","tag-competition","tag-difficult","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-hassan","tag-hossam","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661278:7db86882f6ef9cd3073ebd5ac83646f7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190104","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=190104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}