{"id":213142,"date":"2025-11-10T13:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-take-full-strength-squad-to-al-ain-international-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:11:55","slug":"egypt-take-full-strength-squad-to-al-ain-international-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-take-full-strength-squad-to-al-ain-international-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Take Full Strength Squad to Al Ain International Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\"><em>Egypt is taking a full-strength squad to the Al Ain International Cup in the United Arab Emirates this month as it prepares for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco, where it will be looking for its first continental title in 15 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Egypt has won more Cup of Nations crowns than any other country, but its last success came in 2010 and the Pharaohs will be among the more fancied teams at the tournament in North Africa, where it is paired in Group B with Angola, South&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511100225.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt is taking a full-strength squad to the Al Ain International Cup in the United Arab Emirates this month as it prepares for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco, where it will be looking for its first continental title in 15 years. Egypt has won more Cup of Nations crowns than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":213143,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,22628,6674,4697,415,10170,4337,257,254,8984,13969],"class_list":["post-213142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ain","tag-cup","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-full","tag-international","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-strength"],"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\/213142","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=213142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}