{"id":23294,"date":"2026-02-04T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/ouaddou-aims-to-lead-pirates-to-historic-sa-title\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:07","slug":"ouaddou-aims-to-lead-pirates-to-historic-sa-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ouaddou-aims-to-lead-pirates-to-historic-sa-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouaddou aims to lead Pirates to historic SA Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Abdeslam Ouaddou, at the helm of a proudly African technical team at South Africa\u2019s (SA) Orlando Pirates, says it would be a proud moment to guide the club to its first league title in 14 years.<\/div>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI\u2019m not working alone; I\u2019m surrounded by fantastic players,\u201d Ouaddou said. \u201cThis victory would belong to the players, the technical team, the club, and the African coaching staff. If we can win the title with all these African talents, it would send a strong message to those who doubt African expertise.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Pirates have not lifted the SA league trophy in over a decade, and a triumph under Ouaddou would mark a significant milestone for both the club and African football coaching.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23295,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23294","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"'It would be a proud moment to guide Pirates club to its first league title in 14 years'","published_date":"2026-02-04 13:37:53","news_description":"'It would be a proud moment to guide Pirates club to its first league title in 14 years'","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23294","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\/23294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26307,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23294\/revisions\/26307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}