{"id":35657,"date":"2026-09-30T17:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/who-is-aaron-wan-bissakas-football-hero-bbc-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:19:40","slug":"who-is-aaron-wan-bissakas-football-hero-bbc-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/who-is-aaron-wan-bissakas-football-hero-bbc-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Aaron Wan-Bissaka&#8217;s football hero? &#8211; BBC Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RQ_3qMMOMS8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>DR Congo began their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a narrow win over Benin in Group D in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Leopards\u2019 first game, Aaron Wan-Bissaka was put on the spot by BBC Sport Africa\u2019s Isaiah Akinremi.<\/p>\n<p>Guess his African football hero?<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RQ_3qMMOMS8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR Congo began their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a narrow win over Benin in Group D in Rabat. Ahead of the Leopards\u2019 first game, Aaron Wan-Bissaka was put on the spot by BBC Sport Africa\u2019s Isaiah Akinremi. Guess his African football hero? Subscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica Website: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/ Twitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/ Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35659,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35657\/revisions\/35659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}