{"id":79626,"date":"2026-09-23T21:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=79626"},"modified":"2026-09-23T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:03:40","slug":"dzw-781f3dd8f4623bccc59f2e25a4ef30c23ef16665","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=79626","title":{"rendered":"National U20 Team Begins Africa Cup Qualifying Bid in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">Algerian<\/a> national <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">football<\/a> team for players under 20 is scheduled to play its Tunisian counterpart this Thursday at 2:30 PM. The match will take place at the Suez Canal Stadium in Ismailia, Egypt, marking the first round of the North African Football Union (UNAF) tournament. This competition serves as a crucial qualifier for the 2027 <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.au.int\/en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Africa<\/a> Cup of Nations finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Algerian squad, led by coach Hocin Larbi, arrived in Egypt on Monday to prepare for the tournament. The team aims for a successful start in the competition, which is vital for their qualification aspirations for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, planned to be held in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>For this significant tournament, the national coach has called up a roster of 24 players. The North African Football Union tournament is set to run from September 24 to October 6. The Tunisian U20 team&#39;s coach, Nabil Trabelsi, has also selected 24 players for their participation in the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s U20 national football team is set to compete against Tunisia in the opening match of the North African Football Union tournament, a qualifier for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations. The team arrived in Egypt on Monday, aiming for a strong start in the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79626","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\/79626","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=79626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79627,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79626\/revisions\/79627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}