{"id":21560,"date":"2025-12-23T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/uganda-coach-put-unfazed-by-tunisias-unbeaten-streak\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:36","slug":"uganda-coach-put-unfazed-by-tunisias-unbeaten-streak","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uganda-coach-put-unfazed-by-tunisias-unbeaten-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda coach Put unfazed by Tunisia&#8217;s unbeaten streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Uganda Coach Paul Put believes Tunisia\u2019s perfect record will not be a decisive factor ahead of their Group C clash at the Africa Cup of Nations <span dir=\"ltr\">this Tuesday<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Tunisia are unbeaten in their last seven matches and drew 1-1 with Brazil in their most recent friendly. They also finished the African World Cup qualifiers without conceding a goal, winning nine times and avoiding defeat in 10 matches.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Uganda, meanwhile, have lost twice in their last three games, against Algeria in World Cup qualifying and Morocco in a friendly, and will test themselves against another North African side in their group opener.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;To be honest, I am not busy with these kinds of things. We are facing Tunisia, who did not lose for many games,&#8221; Put told a press conference on Monday.<\/div>\n<div>The Belgian coach, whose side are ranked 85th in the world, added: &#8220;It is a big team with very good players. But also we have a good team&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Uganda began preparations for the tournament on December 8 in Morocco, despite FIFA\u2019s decision to allow foreign-based players to join their national teams only one week before the competition, but Put refused to make excuses.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;\u2018It is a big and a good opportunity, because you are going to play not only for the African continent, but also for the whole world who watch this tournament,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think we have the motivation, and we are going to do our level best to give a good performance.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21561,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,20],"class_list":["post-21560","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Tunisia are unbeaten in their last seven matches.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Tunisia are unbeaten in their last seven matches.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25183,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21560\/revisions\/25183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}