{"id":236769,"date":"2026-06-19T05:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-hossam-hassan-egypts-recent-progress-is-no-accident-after-belgium-opening-draw\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T05:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:21:01","slug":"africa-hossam-hassan-egypts-recent-progress-is-no-accident-after-belgium-opening-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-hossam-hassan-egypts-recent-progress-is-no-accident-after-belgium-opening-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Hossam Hassan &#8211; Egypt&#8217;s Recent Progress Is No Accident After Belgium Opening Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan hailed the team&#8217;s steady development after the Pharaohs earned an impressive 1-1 draw against Belgium in their opening FIFA World Cup match on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Facing one of the tournament favourites, Egypt produced an impressive display, creating several chances before and after Belgium&#8217;s equalizer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The performance was not a surprise but rather the latest step in a process that has been taking shape over the past two years said coach Hassan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606170006.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>Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan hailed the team&#8217;s steady development after the Pharaohs earned an impressive 1-1 draw against Belgium in their opening FIFA World Cup match on Monday. Facing one of the tournament favourites, Egypt produced an impressive display, creating several chances before and after Belgium&#8217;s equalizer. The performance was not a surprise but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236770,"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":[7264,258,256,685,6981,415,6989,16237,43038,257,11416,943,254],"class_list":["post-236769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-accident","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-belgium","tag-draw","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-hassan","tag-hossam","tag-news","tag-opening","tag-progress","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\/236769","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=236769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}