{"id":193536,"date":"2025-03-14T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/africa-aliou-cisse-confident-of-breaking-libyas-12-year-qualification-drought\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:23:01","slug":"africa-aliou-cisse-confident-of-breaking-libyas-12-year-qualification-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/africa-aliou-cisse-confident-of-breaking-libyas-12-year-qualification-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Aliou Ciss\u00e9 Confident of Breaking Libya&#8217;s 12-Year Qualification Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Senegalese coach Aliou Ciss\u00e9 has vowed to end Libya&#8217;s 12-year absence from major international tournaments, expressing confidence in his ability to lead the Mediterranean Knights back to the big stage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Speaking at his official unveiling in Tripoli, Ciss\u00e9 highlighted his determination to transform Libya into a competitive force in African football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The former Senegal coach, who led his country to TotalEnergies CAF AFCON glory in 2022 and a World Cup knockout stage appearance, believes his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140442.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegalese coach Aliou Ciss\u00e9 has vowed to end Libya&#8217;s 12-year absence from major international tournaments, expressing confidence in his ability to lead the Mediterranean Knights back to the big stage. Speaking at his official unveiling in Tripoli, Ciss\u00e9 highlighted his determination to transform Libya into a competitive force in African football. The former Senegal coach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":193537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[35554,258,256,24384,4286,28713,4376,4787,892,6649,257,13369,254],"class_list":["post-193536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-12year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aliou","tag-breaking","tag-cisse","tag-confident","tag-drought","tag-libya-news","tag-libyas","tag-news","tag-qualification","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193536","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=193536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}