{"id":204899,"date":"2025-08-18T04:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-abdul-raouf-sudans-silent-assassin-lighting-up-totalenergies-chan-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:14:59","slug":"sudan-abdul-raouf-sudans-silent-assassin-lighting-up-totalenergies-chan-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-abdul-raouf-sudans-silent-assassin-lighting-up-totalenergies-chan-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Abdul Raouf &#8211; Sudan&#8217;s Silent Assassin Lighting Up TotalEnergies CHAN 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>When the sun sets over Zanzibar and the night air fills with the sounds of vuvuzelas, one name keeps echoing through the stands &#8212; Abdul Razzaq Yaqoub, better known as <em>Abdul Raouf<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a tournament where underdogs are rewriting scripts and giants are falling, the 32-year-old winger has emerged as the beating heart of Sudan&#8217;s CHAN 2024 journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Two matches, two Man of the Match awards, and performances that have turned the Falcons of Jediane from hopeful participants into genuine contenders &#8212; Abdul&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508140007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the sun sets over Zanzibar and the night air fills with the sounds of vuvuzelas, one name keeps echoing through the stands &#8212; Abdul Razzaq Yaqoub, better known as Abdul Raouf. In a tournament where underdogs are rewriting scripts and giants are falling, the 32-year-old winger has emerged as the beating heart of Sudan&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":204900,"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\/00671170:013f03f2a746f10661e7c9ac206fdb11:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[14337,258,256,10345,11500,15469,257,38844,7616,254,4708,1613,8105,38847],"class_list":["post-204899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-abdul","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assassin","tag-chan","tag-lighting","tag-news","tag-raouf","tag-silent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-totalenergies"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671170:013f03f2a746f10661e7c9ac206fdb11:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204899","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=204899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}