{"id":1374,"date":"2026-01-03T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1374\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:03:08","slug":"i-know-rekraki-well-and-facing-the-host-country-is-a-motivation-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1374\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know Rekraki Well and Facing the Host Country is a Motivation for Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania Coach: I Know Rekraki Well and Facing the Host Country is a Motivation for Us<\/p>\n<p>                            Miguel Gamondi, head coach of the Tanzania national team, confirmed that facing the host country\u2019s team will be a great motivation for his team to achieve victory.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco will face Tanzania tomorrow, Sunday, in the round of 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Gamondi said in the pre-match press conference: &#8220;I know Rekraki well, and facing the host country is a motivation for us to deliver a positive result against a strong team with good players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;Our goal is to achieve a positive result against the Moroccan team. I have spent a long part of my life here, I know the atmosphere and everything. The level of professional players in Europe is high, and we will play to seek qualification.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We know the match will be played in front of a large crowd, but Tanzanian players are also used to this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding his knowledge of Moroccan football, he said: &#8220;That alone is not enough; we must be ready. Several factors come into play in football matches. The most important thing is to be well focused and deliver the best performance.&#8221;\n                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanzania Coach: I Know Rekraki Well and Facing the Host Country is a Motivation for Us Miguel Gamondi,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[311,1450,96,1451,1449,152,1448],"class_list":{"0":"post-1374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-matches","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-results","12":"tag-score","13":"tag-tanzania","14":"tag-yalla-shoot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}