{"id":237154,"date":"2026-06-23T05:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/north-africa-fifa-world-cup-2026-gr-f-tunisia-suffer-0-4-defeat-to-japan\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T05:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:23:27","slug":"north-africa-fifa-world-cup-2026-gr-f-tunisia-suffer-0-4-defeat-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/north-africa-fifa-world-cup-2026-gr-f-tunisia-suffer-0-4-defeat-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"North Africa: FIFA World Cup 2026 (Gr.F) &#8211; Tunisia Suffer 0-4 Defeat to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Tunis, June 21 \u2014 <em>Tunisia were eliminated from the FIFA World Cup 2026 after suffering a 0-4 defeat to Japan on Sunday in a second Group F game in Monterrey, Mexico.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Goals were scored by Daichi Kamada (4&#8242;), Ayase Ueda (31&#8242;, 83&#8242;) and Junya Ito (69&#8242;).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">At the end of day-2 games, the Netherlands top rankings (4 points) ahead of Japan (2nd) and sweden (3rd). Tunisia are at the last place with 0 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Tunisia will face the Netherlands in their third and final group stage game on June 26.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606220859.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>Tunis, June 21 \u2014 Tunisia were eliminated from the FIFA World Cup 2026 after suffering a 0-4 defeat to Japan on Sunday in a second Group F game in Monterrey, Mexico. Goals were scored by Daichi Kamada (4&#8242;), Ayase Ueda (31&#8242;, 83&#8242;) and Junya Ito (69&#8242;). At the end of day-2 games, the Netherlands top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237155,"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":[642],"tags":[258,256,6674,6531,9109,54677,1479,257,6732,254,6584,4703,653,5093],"class_list":["post-237154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-defeat","tag-fifa","tag-gr-f","tag-japan","tag-news","tag-north","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suffer","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-world"],"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\/237154","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=237154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}