{"id":34578,"date":"2025-12-12T23:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=34578"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:13:28","slug":"petkovic-to-unveil-national-team-squad-for-africa-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=34578","title":{"rendered":"Petkovic to Unveil National Team Squad for Africa Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Team Coach Vladimir Petkovic will hold a press conference tomorrow, Saturday, to announce the list of players selected to participate in the Africa Cup of Nations 2025. The press conference is scheduled to begin at 3:00 PM at the \u201cMohamed Salah\u201d conference hall at the Nelson Mandela Stadium in Baraki.<\/p>\n<p>The national team is preparing to enter a training camp starting next Monday at the National Technical Center in Sidi Moussa, before heading to the finals on December 19th on a special flight. <\/p>\n<p><em>Les Verts<\/em> will participate in Group E alongside Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, and Sudan. The national team will face Sudan on Wednesday, December 24th, then Burkina Faso on Sunday, December 28th. The group stage will conclude with a match against Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday, December 31st.<\/p>\n<p>Football fans across Algeria and beyond are eagerly awaiting Petkovic&#8217;s selection, hoping for a squad capable of making a deep run in the tournament. <strong>DZWatch will provide full coverage of the press conference and the team&#8217;s preparations in the lead-up to the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=40\">More Sports articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Team Coach Vladimir Petkovic will hold a press conference tomorrow, Saturday, to announce the list of players selected to participate in the Africa Cup of Nations 2025. The press conference is scheduled to begin at 3:00 PM at the \u201cMohamed Salah\u201d conference hall at the Nelson Mandela Stad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34580,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578\/revisions\/34580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}