{"id":12296,"date":"2026-01-11T18:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/africa-afcon-2025-semi-finals-indigenous-coaches-take-centre-stage\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:47:36","slug":"africa-afcon-2025-semi-finals-indigenous-coaches-take-centre-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/africa-afcon-2025-semi-finals-indigenous-coaches-take-centre-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Afcon 2025 Semi-Finals &#8211; Indigenous Coaches Take Centre Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The milestone marks a growing shift in African football, where local coaches are increasingly trusted to lead, innovate, and succeed at the highest level of the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">For the first time in AFCON history, all four semi-finalists are led by African coaches, guaranteeing a fourth consecutive tournament victory for a homegrown tactician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The milestone marks a growing shift in African football, where local coaches are increasingly trusted to lead, innovate, and succeed at the highest level of the continent.<\/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=\"25\">Recent AFCON&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601110127.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The milestone marks a growing shift in African football, where local coaches are increasingly trusted to lead, innovate, and succeed at the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3454,3507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}