{"id":218023,"date":"2025-12-25T02:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-uganda-cranes-pay-for-shambolic-preps-in-3-1-defeat-to-tunisia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T02:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:46:54","slug":"tunisia-uganda-cranes-pay-for-shambolic-preps-in-3-1-defeat-to-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-uganda-cranes-pay-for-shambolic-preps-in-3-1-defeat-to-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia\/Uganda: Cranes Pay for Shambolic Preps in 3-1 Defeat to Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Uganda Cranes paid for shambolic preparation when they fell 3-1 to Algeria in their opening Group C game of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Paul Put&#8217;s charges arrived in Morocco without much pre-tournament build-up games only to see their training hampered by bonus dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The result showed as two goals by Elias Achouri helped Tunisia end their 12-year wait for an opening victory at the Afcon with a commanding Group C win over Uganda in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512240174.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>Uganda Cranes paid for shambolic preparation when they fell 3-1 to Algeria in their opening Group C game of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) on Tuesday evening. Paul Put&#8217;s charges arrived in Morocco without much pre-tournament build-up games only to see their training hampered by bonus dispute. The result showed as two goals by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":218024,"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":[258,256,11165,6531,257,9105,11793,11663,254,4703,653,53227],"class_list":["post-218023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cranes","tag-defeat","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-preps","tag-shambolic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisiauganda"],"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\/218023","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=218023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}