{"id":205135,"date":"2025-08-21T04:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-kwesi-appiah-from-late-start-to-rising-contenders-at-chan-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:22:22","slug":"sudans-kwesi-appiah-from-late-start-to-rising-contenders-at-chan-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-kwesi-appiah-from-late-start-to-rising-contenders-at-chan-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Kwesi Appiah &#8211; From Late Start to Rising Contenders At CHAN 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Tournament football is often defined by momentum, and for Sudan coach Kwesi Appiah, his side is finding theirs at precisely the right moment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Falcons of Jediane topped Group D of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024, edging holders Senegal on goal difference after a tense 0-0 draw in Zanzibar on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Remarkably, Sudan had assembled just four days before the competition began, yet Appiah&#8217;s men have progressed unbeaten through the group stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;We started the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508200705.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>Tournament football is often defined by momentum, and for Sudan coach Kwesi Appiah, his side is finding theirs at precisely the right moment. The Falcons of Jediane topped Group D of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024, edging holders Senegal on goal difference after a tense 0-0 draw in Zanzibar on Tuesday night. Remarkably, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205136,"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\/00671216:ebe64743640705abc2c202d3ffce6abb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,23536,11500,25704,22427,8262,257,6678,254,7138,1613,8105],"class_list":["post-205135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appiah","tag-chan","tag-contenders","tag-kwesi","tag-late","tag-news","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671216:ebe64743640705abc2c202d3ffce6abb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205135","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=205135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}