{"id":211598,"date":"2025-10-28T12:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/kenya-newbies-with-giant-mentality-ali-amazed-at-naibois-composure-in-hostile-confederation-cup-tie-in-tunisia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:38:31","slug":"kenya-newbies-with-giant-mentality-ali-amazed-at-naibois-composure-in-hostile-confederation-cup-tie-in-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/kenya-newbies-with-giant-mentality-ali-amazed-at-naibois-composure-in-hostile-confederation-cup-tie-in-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;Newbies With Giant Mentality &#8211; &#8216; Ali Amazed At Naibois Composure in Hostile Confederation Cup Tie in Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Nairobi United technical director Salim Ali admits he was surprised at the mentality of his players amid a hostile environment in their Confederations Cup encounter against Tunisia&#8217;s Etoile Sportive du Sahel in Sousse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Ali says they received poor hospitality from their hosts and praised his charges for rising above the challenges to qualify for the group stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;When we came here, there was a different atmosphere in the team. What I saw from the players was really something amazing. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510280167.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>NAIROBI \u2014 Nairobi United technical director Salim Ali admits he was surprised at the mentality of his players amid a hostile environment in their Confederations Cup encounter against Tunisia&#8217;s Etoile Sportive du Sahel in Sousse. Ali says they received poor hospitality from their hosts and praised his charges for rising above the challenges to qualify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":211599,"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":[258,256,19480,52705,52707,7864,6674,10414,17370,4688,8236,52706,52704,257,254,8465,4703,653],"class_list":["post-211598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ali","tag-amazed","tag-composure","tag-confederation","tag-cup","tag-giant","tag-hostile","tag-kenya","tag-mentality","tag-naibois","tag-newbies","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tie","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"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\/211598","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=211598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}