{"id":237156,"date":"2026-06-23T05:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-hossam-hassan-sees-signs-of-progress-as-egypt-prepare-for-crucial-new-zealand-test\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T05:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:28:52","slug":"egypt-hossam-hassan-sees-signs-of-progress-as-egypt-prepare-for-crucial-new-zealand-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-hossam-hassan-sees-signs-of-progress-as-egypt-prepare-for-crucial-new-zealand-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Hossam Hassan Sees Signs of Progress As Egypt Prepare for Crucial New Zealand Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Egypt coach Hossam Hassan believes the Pharaohs are beginning to reap the rewards of a long-term project as they prepare to face New Zealand in their second FIFA World Cup 2026 Group G match on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking ahead of the crucial tie, Hassan reflected on the work that has gone into shaping the current side, insisting the team&#8217;s development has been gradual and built over several competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8220;Our work started long before the World Cup,&#8221; said Hassan. &#8220;We went through the World Cup qualifiers,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606220856.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 coach Hossam Hassan believes the Pharaohs are beginning to reap the rewards of a long-term project as they prepare to face New Zealand in their second FIFA World Cup 2026 Group G match on Monday. Speaking ahead of the crucial tie, Hassan reflected on the work that has gone into shaping the current side, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237157,"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":[258,256,7774,4697,415,16237,43038,257,6805,943,10159,6428,254,6596,12872],"class_list":["post-237156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crucial","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-hassan","tag-hossam","tag-news","tag-prepare","tag-progress","tag-sees","tag-signs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-test","tag-zealand"],"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\/237156","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=237156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}