{"id":200960,"date":"2025-06-26T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-kanzari-club-world-cup-exit-will-shape-esperances-future\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:58:20","slug":"africa-kanzari-club-world-cup-exit-will-shape-esperances-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-kanzari-club-world-cup-exit-will-shape-esperances-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Kanzari &#8211; Club World Cup Exit Will Shape Esperance&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>Esperance coach Maher Kanzari says his side achieved what they came for at the FIFA Club World Cup &#8211; experience and growth &#8211; despite their campaign ending in a 3-0 defeat to Chelsea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Speaking after the Group D loss at Lincoln Financial Field, the Tunisian coach highlighted a lack of concentration during key moments as the main reason for their downfall, but insisted his squad leaves stronger and better equipped for future challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">&#8220;We played the first 45 minutes very well, but we forgot about&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506250426.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>Esperance coach Maher Kanzari says his side achieved what they came for at the FIFA Club World Cup &#8211; experience and growth &#8211; despite their campaign ending in a 3-0 defeat to Chelsea. Speaking after the Group D loss at Lincoln Financial Field, the Tunisian coach highlighted a lack of concentration during key moments as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":200961,"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":[642],"tags":[258,256,7400,6674,51736,17162,5760,51735,257,14777,254,653,5093],"class_list":["post-200960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-club","tag-cup","tag-esperances","tag-exit","tag-future","tag-kanzari","tag-news","tag-shape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia-news","tag-world"],"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\/200960","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=200960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}