{"id":174045,"date":"2024-06-07T07:25:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T05:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/rwanda-cote-divoire-2026-wc-qualifier-benin-edge-rwanda-in-abidjan\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T07:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T05:25:33","slug":"rwanda-cote-divoire-2026-wc-qualifier-benin-edge-rwanda-in-abidjan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/rwanda-cote-divoire-2026-wc-qualifier-benin-edge-rwanda-in-abidjan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\/Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: 2026 WC Qualifier &#8211; Benin Edge Rwanda in Abidjan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Rwanda Lost 1-0 to Benin at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan on Thursday night in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/17415\/sports\/football\/rwanda-aim-for-unbeaten-run-ahead-of-benin-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying game.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The win, courtesy of Dodo Dokou&#8217;s 37th minute match winner, brought Benin back in the race for a ticket to the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico after going level on points with the visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">It was an entertaining game with Amavubi putting up a great showing, especially in the second half. They, however, missed a host of golden chances as they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406070020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Lost 1-0 to Benin at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan on Thursday night in a 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying game. The win, courtesy of Dodo Dokou&#8217;s 37th minute match winner, brought Benin back in the race for a ticket to the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2554,258,256,4737,6183,6555,5959,7126,1218,257,8496,4702,27258,254],"class_list":["post-174045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benin","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-edge","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-qualifier","tag-rwanda","tag-rwandacote","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}