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Egypt’s Mohamed Salah got close to receiving a perfect 34th birthday present yesterday in the Pharaohs’ opening Group G fixture of the 2026 FIFA World Cup with Belgium in Seattle.<\/p>\n
But a Mohamed Hany’s 66th minute blunder, under pressure from substitute Romelu Lukaku, turned into his own net a low cross by Thomas Meunier for Belgium’s 1-1 equaliser.<\/p>\n
And so, Egypt continue to search for their first ever World Cup victory since 1934 when they started to participate in the Mundial.<\/p>\n
\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Egypt’s Mohamed Salah got close to receiving a perfect 34th birthday present yesterday in the Pharaohs’ opening Group G fixture of the 2026 FIFA World Cup with Belgium in Seattle. But a Mohamed Hany’s 66th minute blunder, under pressure from substitute Romelu Lukaku, turned into his own net a low cross by Thomas Meunier for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236593,"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":[258,256,685,15911,9583,4697,415,16206,8551,54638,7204,257,13099,13702,254],"class_list":["post-236592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-belgium","tag-birthday","tag-deny","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-gift","tag-goal","tag-hanys","tag-hold","tag-news","tag-perfect","tag-salah","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/236592","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=236592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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