{"id":8837,"date":"2025-12-12T16:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/will-2026-be-africas-year-experts-react-to-the-world-cup-draw\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:50:18","slug":"will-2026-be-africas-year-experts-react-to-the-world-cup-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/will-2026-be-africas-year-experts-react-to-the-world-cup-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Will 2026 be Africa\u2019s year? Experts react to the World Cup draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/1ed46566-d209-11f0-a772-005056a97e36\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/EN-20251205-191942-192516-CS.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>The draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup is underway, setting the stage for a historic tournament hosted across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In this special segment, we break down Africa\u2019s chances of going all the way in 2026. Could this be the year an African team lifts the World Cup trophy for the first time?<\/p>\n<p>Join our experts Karim Bald\u00e9 and Thando Sibiya, who explore the form, strengths, and potential breakthroughs of Africa\u2019s top contenders.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20251205-will-2026-be-africa-s-year-experts-react-to-the-world-cup-draw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup is underway, setting the stage for a historic tournament hosted across the United States,&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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837","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=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}