{"id":210708,"date":"2025-10-21T20:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/west-africa-etoile-du-sahel-impressed-by-ex-gor-defenders-start-to-life-for-tunisian-giants\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:18:50","slug":"west-africa-etoile-du-sahel-impressed-by-ex-gor-defenders-start-to-life-for-tunisian-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/west-africa-etoile-du-sahel-impressed-by-ex-gor-defenders-start-to-life-for-tunisian-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Etoile Du Sahel Impressed By Ex-Gor Defender&#8217;s Start to Life for Tunisian Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Etoile du Sahel assistant coach Mohammed Ali believes Harambee Stars defender Alphonce Omija will be pivotal to their title ambitions this season.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Ali says Omija is an important cog in the team as they seek to win the Tunisian league title as well as the Caf Confederations Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">&#8220;He is an important player for us. He&#8217;s an international player, so he&#8217;s very important for us. He&#8217;s started well with us, so we have five or six games now. He&#8217;s a very good player with a good mentality. He&#8217;s captained the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510210712.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etoile du Sahel assistant coach Mohammed Ali believes Harambee Stars defender Alphonce Omija will be pivotal to their title ambitions this season. Ali says Omija is an important cog in the team as they seek to win the Tunisian league title as well as the Caf Confederations Cup. &#8220;He is an important player for us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":210709,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,5101,14407,28532,12375,19270,430,6448,257,6346,254,7138,6932,4375],"class_list":["post-210708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defenders","tag-etoile","tag-exgor","tag-giants","tag-impressed","tag-kenya-news","tag-life","tag-news","tag-sahel","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-tunisian","tag-west"],"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\/210708","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}