{"id":236494,"date":"2026-06-16T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-tunisia-appoint-herve-renard-in-bid-to-rescue-2026-world-cup-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:06:19","slug":"africa-tunisia-appoint-herve-renard-in-bid-to-rescue-2026-world-cup-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-tunisia-appoint-herve-renard-in-bid-to-rescue-2026-world-cup-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Tunisia Appoint Herve Renard in Bid to Rescue 2026 World Cup Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Tunisia have moved quickly to reignite their FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign by appointing experienced French coach Herve Renard as head coach following the departure of Sabri Lamouchi after the team&#8217;s opening defeat at the tournament.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Tunisian Football Association confirmed on Monday that Renard will take immediate charge of the Eagles of Carthage as they attempt to recover from a difficult start to their World Cup journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">His first assignment will be a crucial Group F encounter against Japan&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606160249.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 moved quickly to reignite their FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign by appointing experienced French coach Herve Renard as head coach following the departure of Sabri Lamouchi after the team&#8217;s opening defeat at the tournament. The Tunisian Football Association confirmed on Monday that Renard will take immediate charge of the Eagles of Carthage as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236495,"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\/00290232:8013e75f9f830f0cefb7896410559bde:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,12489,10798,4302,6674,29634,257,29086,10904,254,4703,653,5093],"class_list":["post-236494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appoint","tag-bid","tag-campaign","tag-cup","tag-herve","tag-news","tag-renard","tag-rescue","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00290232:8013e75f9f830f0cefb7896410559bde:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236494","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=236494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}