{"id":149863,"date":"2025-02-11T13:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach"},"modified":"2025-02-15T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:27:08","slug":"super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles AFCON 2025 opponent appoint new coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Tunisia Football Federation, TFF, has announced the appointment of Sami Trabelsi as new head coach of the Carthage Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Trabelsi previously coached the former African champions between 2011 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The former defender takes the place of Faouzi Benzarti, who was sacked last October after less than five months in charge of the team.<\/p>\n<p>Kais Yaakoubi served as interim coach following Benzarti\u2019s dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>Hamadi Daou has also been confirmed as one of the national team assistant coaches.<\/p>\n<p>The TFF are also looking to add Mohamed Sahli to the coaching crew.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisia will face Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania in Group C at the AFCON 2025 finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Tunisia Football Federation, TFF, has announced the appointment of Sami Trabelsi as new head coach of the Carthage Eagles. Trabelsi previously coached the former African champions between 2011 and 2013. The former defender takes the place of Faouzi Benzarti, who was sacked last October after less than five months in charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":149862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[468,254,453],"class_list":["post-149863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-afcon","tag-nigeria","tag-super-eagles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Super Eagles AFCON 2025 opponent appoint new coach - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Tunisia Football Federation, TFF, has announced the appointment of Sami Trabelsi as new head coach of the Carthage E ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Super Eagles AFCON 2025 opponent appoint new coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Tunisia Football Federation, TFF, has announced the appointment of Sami Trabelsi as new head coach of the Carthage E ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-11T12:06:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-15T22:27:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739267218.906176.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Super Eagles AFCON 2025 opponent appoint new coach\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-11T12:06:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-15T22:27:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach\"},\"wordCount\":123,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739267218.906176.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AFCON\",\"Nigeria\",\"super eagles\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/super-eagles-afcon-2025-opponent-appoint-new-coach\",\"name\":\"Super Eagles AFCON 2025 opponent appoint new coach - 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