{"id":237191,"date":"2026-06-23T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-ruthless-japan-blowout-tunisia-from-the-2026-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:24:10","slug":"tunisia-ruthless-japan-blowout-tunisia-from-the-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-ruthless-japan-blowout-tunisia-from-the-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Ruthless Japan Blowout Tunisia From the 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Japan&#8217;s ruthless 4-0 defeat of Tunisia yesterday ensured that the Carthage Eagles became the first African team to bow out of the ongoing 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Tunisia who lost their opening game 5-1 to Sweden and fired their Head Coach,<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Sabri Lamouchi. Herv\u00e9 Renard was hired to continue Tunisia&#8217;s campaign at the Mundial.<\/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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">However, in their Group F where The Netherlands and Japan already have four points each from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606230313.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>Japan&#8217;s ruthless 4-0 defeat of Tunisia yesterday ensured that the Carthage Eagles became the first African team to bow out of the ongoing 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America. Tunisia who lost their opening game 5-1 to Sweden and fired their Head Coach, Sabri Lamouchi. Herv\u00e9 Renard was hired to continue Tunisia&#8217;s campaign at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237192,"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":[258,256,54683,6674,1479,257,9814,254,4703,653,5093],"class_list":["post-237191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blowout","tag-cup","tag-japan","tag-news","tag-ruthless","tag-south-africa-today","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\/237191","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=237191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}