{"id":63772,"date":"2026-06-16T16:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=63772"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:35:23","slug":"oukidja-optimistic-algeria-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=63772","title":{"rendered":"Oukidja Expresses Strong Optimism for Algeria&#8217;s World Cup 2026 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Algerian international goalkeeper Alexandre Oukidja has expressed optimism regarding the national team&#39;s prospects in the 2026 World Cup, anticipating a commendable performance. Oukidja&#39;s last appearance for the national team, the &#39;Greens,&#39; was on November 14, 2024, in an away match against Equatorial Guinea as part of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, which concluded in a goalless draw. His forward-looking statements suggest confidence in the team&#39;s potential to achieve success on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related topics:<\/strong> Algeria national football team, Alexandre Oukidja, World Cup 2026, Algerian football, African qualifiers, Algeria<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch provides English-language coverage of Algeria-focused developments for international readers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian football star Alexandre Oukidja expresses strong optimism for the national team&#8217;s performance in the 2026 World Cup, envisioning a successful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63771,"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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63772","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\/63772","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=63772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}