{"id":237995,"date":"2026-07-02T17:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-2026-fifa-world-cup-how-six-national-team-coaches-lost-their-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:42:54","slug":"tunisia-2026-fifa-world-cup-how-six-national-team-coaches-lost-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-2026-fifa-world-cup-how-six-national-team-coaches-lost-their-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: 2026 FIFA World Cup &#8211; How Six National Team Coaches Lost Their Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Their exits came through different circumstances, some by choice, others by dismissal, but each illustrates the same truth: the World Cup remains football&#8217;s most unforgiving arena, where years of preparation can unravel in the space of 90 minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The FIFA World Cup has never been merely a tournament for players. While footballers chase immortality on the pitch, coaches carry an equally daunting burden, knowing that just a handful of matches can judge four years of planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">History definitely&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607020394.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>Their exits came through different circumstances, some by choice, others by dismissal, but each illustrates the same truth: the World Cup remains football&#8217;s most unforgiving arena, where years of preparation can unravel in the space of 90 minutes&#8230; The FIFA World Cup has never been merely a tournament for players. While footballers chase immortality on [&hellip;]<\/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":[642],"tags":[258,256,7458,6674,9109,6643,7408,6687,257,254,7142,4703,653,5093],"class_list":["post-237995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coaches","tag-cup","tag-fifa","tag-jobs","tag-lost","tag-national","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237995","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=237995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237995\/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=237995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}