{"id":238286,"date":"2026-07-08T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-they-wanted-messi-to-remain-egypt-coach-alleges-unfair-treatment-after-world-cup-exit\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:03:13","slug":"egypt-they-wanted-messi-to-remain-egypt-coach-alleges-unfair-treatment-after-world-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-they-wanted-messi-to-remain-egypt-coach-alleges-unfair-treatment-after-world-cup-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: &#8216;They Wanted Messi to Remain&#8217; &#8211; Egypt Coach Alleges Unfair Treatment After World Cup Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Egypt coach Hossam Hassan has questioned the officiating in his side&#8217;s dramatic 3-2 defeat to Argentina, suggesting the defending champions benefited from favourable decisions because of Lionel Messi&#8217;s presence at the 2026<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIFAcom?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">FIFA World Cup<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">According to the Egyptian news outlet Ahram Online, Hassan made the remarks after Egypt surrendered a two-goal lead before Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez scored a stoppage-time winner, sending Argentina into the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Pharaohs looked on course for one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607080238.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 has questioned the officiating in his side&#8217;s dramatic 3-2 defeat to Argentina, suggesting the defending champions benefited from favourable decisions because of Lionel Messi&#8217;s presence at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. According to the Egyptian news outlet Ahram Online, Hassan made the remarks after Egypt surrendered a two-goal lead before Enzo [&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":[338],"tags":[258,256,20138,7346,6674,4697,415,17162,21447,257,5153,254,12416,15329,7919,5093],"class_list":["post-238286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleges","tag-coach","tag-cup","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-exit","tag-messi","tag-news","tag-remain","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treatment","tag-unfair","tag-wanted","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238286","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=238286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238286\/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=238286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}