{"id":176442,"date":"2024-07-12T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T18:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/africa-euro-2024-africa-watches-as-footballing-wizards-dazzle\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T20:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T18:26:47","slug":"africa-euro-2024-africa-watches-as-footballing-wizards-dazzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/africa-euro-2024-africa-watches-as-footballing-wizards-dazzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Euro 2024 &#8211; Africa Watches As Footballing Wizards Dazzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em><em>Spain take on England in Sunday&#8217;s Euro 2024 final, but there is huge interest away from the continent. Players with African heritage such as Lamine Yamal, Nico Williams and Bukayo Saka have lit up the tournament.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">No matter who is crowned European champions on Sunday, Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams have proved they are the real deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Spain wingers have struck fear into the hearts of any unfortunate defender who&#8217;s been tasked with containing them at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/uefa-euro-2024\/t-47382022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euro 2024.<\/a> But their success has also shone a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407120472.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain take on England in Sunday&#8217;s Euro 2024 final, but there is huge interest away from the continent. Players with African heritage such as Lamine Yamal, Nico Williams and Bukayo Saka have lit up the tournament. No matter who is crowned European champions on Sunday, Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams have proved they are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00541832:85f465a2eefc621832d9fa6052f7b4a7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,49026,18378,35460,1124,257,254,49025,43305],"class_list":["post-176442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dazzle","tag-euro","tag-footballing","tag-guinea-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-watches","tag-wizards"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00541832:85f465a2eefc621832d9fa6052f7b4a7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176442","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=176442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}