{"id":220288,"date":"2026-01-13T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-operi-boly-confident-as-cote-divoire-prepare-for-egypt-quarter-final-test\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:54:51","slug":"africa-operi-boly-confident-as-cote-divoire-prepare-for-egypt-quarter-final-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-operi-boly-confident-as-cote-divoire-prepare-for-egypt-quarter-final-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Operi, Boly Confident As C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Prepare for Egypt Quarter-Final Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire defenders Christopher Operi and Willy Boly have expressed confidence and determination ahead of their highly anticipated quarter-final clash against Egypt, as the Elephants continue their pursuit of their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations title defense in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Speaking to CAFOnline, Operi highlighted the focus and belief within the Ivorian camp as preparations intensify for Saturday&#8217;s crunch encounter against the seven-time African champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8220;We&#8217;re preparing well. Since&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120675.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>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire defenders Christopher Operi and Willy Boly have expressed confidence and determination ahead of their highly anticipated quarter-final clash against Egypt, as the Elephants continue their pursuit of their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations title defense in Morocco. Speaking to CAFOnline, Operi highlighted the focus and belief within the Ivorian camp as preparations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220289,"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":[258,256,53400,4376,5958,5959,4697,415,257,53399,6805,19316,254,6596],"class_list":["post-220288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boly","tag-confident","tag-cote","tag-divoire","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-operi","tag-prepare","tag-quarterfinal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-test"],"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\/220288","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=220288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}