{"id":249612,"date":"2026-11-10T02:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-sacks-national-team-coach-hassan-after-off-field-controversies\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T02:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T00:30:19","slug":"nigeria-egypt-sacks-national-team-coach-hassan-after-off-field-controversies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-sacks-national-team-coach-hassan-after-off-field-controversies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Egypt Sacks National Team Coach Hassan After Off-Field Controversies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) has dismissed Hossam Hassan as head coach of the national men&#8217;s team, the federation announced Saturday night after a full-day meeting of its board of directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">The EFA said the decision was taken after reviewing recent events and their effect on the national team&#8217;s reputation and stability. The federation had faced mounting pressure over controversies surrounding Hassan, including disputes involving his two wives, a media ban imposed by national&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611090503.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>The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) has dismissed Hossam Hassan as head coach of the national men&#8217;s team, the federation announced Saturday night after a full-day meeting of its board of directors. The EFA said the decision was taken after reviewing recent events and their effect on the national team&#8217;s reputation and stability. The federation had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249613,"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":[258,256,7346,43700,4697,415,16237,6687,257,4687,36945,15479,254,7142],"class_list":["post-249612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coach","tag-controversies","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-hassan","tag-national","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-offfield","tag-sacks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team"],"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\/249612","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=249612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}