{"id":46073,"date":"2025-10-08T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/salah-leads-egypt-to-the-2026-world-cup-with-a-crucial-brace\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:49:05","slug":"salah-leads-egypt-to-the-2026-world-cup-with-a-crucial-brace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/salah-leads-egypt-to-the-2026-world-cup-with-a-crucial-brace\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah leads Egypt to the 2026 World Cup with a crucial brace"},"content":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah returns to the World Cup! The Liverpool star secured his presence in the next World Cup with the Egyptian national team.<h2>Salah&#8217;s brace secures the win<\/h2>The Egyptian star scored two goals in the 3-0 victory over Djibouti on Wednesday, ensuring that Egypt tops its African qualifying group with one match to spare.Salah and Egypt were already in the 2018 World Cup, although the player was affected by a shoulder injury suffered in the Champions League final weeks before.<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1008%2Fr1557473_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Mohamed Salah celebrando\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Mohamed Salah Ibrahim Adel celebra durante la victoria de Egipto en la clasificaci\u00f3n para la Copa Mundial de la FIFA contra Yibuti.<\/figcaption><\/figure>In that edition, Egypt lost all three matches in its group.Egypt will be one of the nine African teams that will qualify directly. The World Cup tournament draw will take place on December 5 in Washington D.C.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah returns to the World Cup! The Liverpool star secured his presence in the next World Cup with the Egyptian national team. Salah&#8217;s brace secures the win The Egyptian star scored two goals in the 3-0 victory over Djibouti on Wednesday, ensuring that Egypt tops its African qualifying group with one match to spare.Salah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3342,138,261,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-46073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-egypt","9":"tag-liverpool","10":"tag-mohamed-salah","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}