{"id":237251,"date":"2026-06-24T05:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/iran-team-leaves-note-of-thanks-to-la-egypt-win-first-ever-world-cup-match\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:31:20","slug":"iran-team-leaves-note-of-thanks-to-la-egypt-win-first-ever-world-cup-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/iran-team-leaves-note-of-thanks-to-la-egypt-win-first-ever-world-cup-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Team Leaves Note of Thanks to LA, Egypt Win First-Ever World Cup Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Daily Maverick] Iran thank Los Angeles for its hospitality amid World Cup challenges, while Egypt claims their first victory, fuelled by Mohamed Salah and a resurgent team spirit.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606230402.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>[Daily Maverick] Iran thank Los Angeles for its hospitality amid World Cup challenges, while Egypt claims their first victory, fuelled by Mohamed Salah and a resurgent team spirit. Read more on AllAfrica.com South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa Egypt News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6674,4697,415,13853,7539,9647,8778,257,8313,254,7142,6660,5093],"class_list":["post-237251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-firstever","tag-iran","tag-leaves","tag-match","tag-news","tag-note","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-win","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237251","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=237251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}