{"id":198470,"date":"2025-05-20T12:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-indomitable-lions-world-cup-star-kunde-dies\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:37:37","slug":"cameroon-indomitable-lions-world-cup-star-kunde-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-indomitable-lions-world-cup-star-kunde-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Indomitable Lions&#8217; World Cup Star Kund\u00e9 Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Cape Town \u2014 Emmanuel Kund\u00e9 , who was key when the 1990 Cameroon side became the first African team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals, died, the country\u2019s football federation announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The 68-year-old played in his country&#8217;s debut appearance at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, and was part of the victorious team when the Indomitable Lions beat Nigeria 3-1 for the 1984 Africa Cup of Nations title, and again in 1988, coming out on top against Nigeria 1-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Kund\u00e9 \u00a0took the penalty that decided&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505200170.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2014 Emmanuel Kund\u00e9 , who was key when the 1990 Cameroon side became the first African team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals, died, the country\u2019s football federation announced. The 68-year-old played in his country&#8217;s debut appearance at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, and was part of the victorious team when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670321:2c7a7768672a03b83300f859e0171d03:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,6674,6868,17320,51391,8779,257,254,10128,5093],"class_list":["post-198470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cup","tag-dies","tag-indomitable","tag-kunde","tag-lions","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-star","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670321:2c7a7768672a03b83300f859e0171d03:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198470","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}