{"id":39953,"date":"2026-07-18T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39953"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:35:00","slug":"coach-migne-hops-from-haiti-to-gabon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/coach-migne-hops-from-haiti-to-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Migne hops from Haiti to Gabon \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French-born coach Sebastien Migne, who led Haiti to the World Cup, has been appointed to take charge \u200cof Gabon as they seek to qualify for next year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations finals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is a return to African football for \u2060the 53-year-old, previously coach of Republic of the Congo, Kenya, and Equatorial Guinea. He was also the assistant coach of Cameroon at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gabon begin their Cup of Nations qualifying campaign in September with matches \u200cagainst \u2060Morocco and Niger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Migne helped Haiti to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 52 years, but \u2060they were eliminated in the first round of the tournament in Canada, Mexico and \u2060the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Gabon football federation did not give any details \u2060of the contract terms when announcing the appointment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39954,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-39953","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"French-born coach Sebastien Migne, who led Haiti to the World Cup, has been appointed to take charge \u200cof Gabon","published_date":"2026-07-18 15:51:44","news_description":"French-born coach Sebastien Migne, who led Haiti to the World Cup, has been appointed to take charge \u200cof Gabon","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39953","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\/39953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39955,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39953\/revisions\/39955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}