{"id":532167,"date":"2026-09-26T09:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=532167"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:11:15","slug":"afcon-2027-uganda-holds-tunisia-to-a-1-1-draw-in-rades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/afcon-2027-uganda-holds-tunisia-to-a-1-1-draw-in-rades\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2027: Uganda Holds Tunisia to a 1-1 Draw in Rad\u00e8s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Uganda secured a point in Rad\u00e8s by holding Tunisia to a 1-1 draw on Thursday, September 24, in their opening match of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Trailing from the 12th minute, the Cranes responded in the second half through Rogers Mato.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tunisia quickly took the lead thanks to Adem Arous. The defender found the opening after twelve minutes, providing an ideal start for the Carthage Eagles in the first official match under their new coach, Mouine Cha\u00e2bani.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda, however, did not give in. In the 68th minute, Rogers Mato finished an action initiated by Nathan Asiimwe to level the score between the two teams. The score and goal scorers are confirmed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/afcon2025\/news\/zimbabwe-produce-stunning-comeback-as-cameroon-and-cote-d-ivoire-open-with-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African Football Confederation<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/football\/match\/_\/gameId\/401920052\/uganda-tunisia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN match data<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UgandaCranes\/status\/2103220641750987202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official Cranes account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>A matter of character for the Cranes<\/h2>\n<p>The team led by Paul Put thus held firm until the final whistle against a Tunisian side reshuffled after the 2026 World Cup. According to the CAF, only fourteen players who participated in the World Cup were included in the squad selected for this gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Already qualified for the final phase as co-host with Kenya and Tanzania, Uganda is using these matches to prepare for the home tournament. This away draw serves as an encouraging initial benchmark against a Tunisia team that, for its part, must go through the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams will continue their campaign on the second matchday. Tunisia will need to quickly regain effectiveness, while Uganda will seek to confirm the solidity displayed in Rad\u00e8s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trailing from the 12th minute, Uganda equalized through Rogers Mato to secure a point in Tunisia during the first matchday of the 2027 AFCON qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":532168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_benews_format":"","_benews_media_url":"","_benews_urgent_until":0,"_benews_essentials":"","_benews_format_auto":"","_benews_nl_alert":false,"_benews_premium":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"pays":[],"personnalite":[],"class_list":["post-532167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afrique-sport"],"acf":{"type_de_publication":"actualite","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532169,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532167\/revisions\/532169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532167"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=532167"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=532167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}