{"id":46677,"date":"2025-10-09T05:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/salah-and-egypt-qualify-for-the-2026-world-cup-double-secures-the-pass\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T05:45:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:45:56","slug":"salah-and-egypt-qualify-for-the-2026-world-cup-double-secures-the-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/salah-and-egypt-qualify-for-the-2026-world-cup-double-secures-the-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah and Egypt qualify for the 2026 World Cup: Double secures the pass"},"content":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah secures his return to the World Cup with Egypt next summer.\n\nLiverpool star Mohamed Salah scored two goals in the 3-0 victory over Djibouti on Wednesday, ensuring Egypt tops their African qualifying group with a match to spare.\n\nSalah and Egypt participated in the 2018 World Cup, where Salah was affected by a shoulder injury suffered in the Champions League final weeks before.\n\n<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 de Egipto celebra durante la victoria de clasificaci\u00f3n para la Copa Mundial de la FIFA contra Yibuti.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Mohamed Salah de Egipto celebra durante la victoria de clasificaci\u00f3n para la Copa Mundial de la FIFA contra Yibuti.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nIn that edition, Egypt lost all three matches in its group.\n\nEgypt will be among the nine African teams that will qualify directly for the World Cup in the tournament draw on December 5 in Washington D.C.\n\nBurkina Faso is second behind Egypt in Group A after its 1-0 victory over Sierra Leone, while Ethiopia defeated Guinea-Bissau 1-0.\n\nCape Verde came back from 3-1 down to draw 3-3 against Libya, moving closer to what would be their first World Cup qualification.\n\nCape Verde leads Group D by two points over Cameroon, who defeated Mauritius 2-0.\n\nIn another Group D match, Angola drew 2-2 at home against Eswatini.\n\nGhana&#8217;s 5-0 victory over the Central African Republic brings the Black Stars closer to qualification, needing a point from their last match.\n\nMadagascar remains second behind Ghana in Group I after a 2-1 victory over Comoros.\n\nMali secured a 2-0 away win over Chad.\n\nAlso, Niger defeated Congo 3-1, and Zambia beat Tanzania 1-0 in Group E.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah secures his return to the World Cup with Egypt next summer. Liverpool star Mohamed Salah scored two goals in the 3-0 victory over Djibouti on Wednesday, ensuring Egypt tops their African qualifying group with a match to spare. Salah and Egypt participated in the 2018 World Cup, where Salah was affected by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3342,138,261,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-46677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-egypt","8":"tag-liverpool","9":"tag-mohamed-salah","10":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46677","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=46677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}