{"id":219406,"date":"2026-01-06T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-sack-coach-after-afcon-2025-exit\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:35:03","slug":"tunisia-sack-coach-after-afcon-2025-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-sack-coach-after-afcon-2025-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia Sack Coach After Afcon 2025 Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Tunisia have parted ways with its national senior soccer team head coach Sami Trabelsi after the Carthage Eagles&#8217; early exit from the ongoing 2025 TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), ending a turbulent campaign that drew widespread criticism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Tunisian Football Federation confirmed the development on Sunday, less than a day after Tunisia were knocked out by Mali in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The fiercely contested clash finished 1-1 after extra time, before Mali prevailed in a tense penalty&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601060005.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>Tunisia have parted ways with its national senior soccer team head coach Sami Trabelsi after the Carthage Eagles&#8217; early exit from the ongoing 2025 TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), ending a turbulent campaign that drew widespread criticism. The Tunisian Football Federation confirmed the development on Sunday, less than a day after Tunisia were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219407,"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\/00680383:8ecbbc35c3a515875cc36931a16be2b7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[9488,258,256,7346,17162,257,10706,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-219406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coach","tag-exit","tag-news","tag-sack","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680383:8ecbbc35c3a515875cc36931a16be2b7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219406","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=219406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}