{"id":237091,"date":"2026-06-22T17:21:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-suffer-heavy-defeat-to-japan-and-bow-out-of-fifa-world-cup-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:21:55","slug":"tunisia-suffer-heavy-defeat-to-japan-and-bow-out-of-fifa-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-suffer-heavy-defeat-to-japan-and-bow-out-of-fifa-world-cup-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia Suffer Heavy Defeat to Japan and Bow Out of FIFA World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Tunisia&#8217;s FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign came to an early end on Saturday after a heavy 4-0 defeat to Japan at Estadio Monterrey Guadalupe in Mexico in their second Group F match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The result saw the Carthage Eagles suffer a second successive defeat and confirmed their elimination from the tournament with one group match still to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The encounter carried historic significance, marking the 1000th match in FIFA World Cup finals history since the competition began in 1930.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Tunisia went into the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606220127.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&#8217;s FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign came to an early end on Saturday after a heavy 4-0 defeat to Japan at Estadio Monterrey Guadalupe in Mexico in their second Group F match. The result saw the Carthage Eagles suffer a second successive defeat and confirmed their elimination from the tournament with one group match still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237092,"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\/00681757:6bcb8d6b317267740ec33aee58da746f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,18307,6674,6531,9109,8130,1479,257,254,6584,4703,653,5093],"class_list":["post-237091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bow","tag-cup","tag-defeat","tag-fifa","tag-heavy","tag-japan","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suffer","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681757:6bcb8d6b317267740ec33aee58da746f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237091","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=237091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}