{"id":177383,"date":"2024-07-27T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angolas-handball-team-loses-in-its-debut\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T12:39:08","slug":"angolas-handball-team-loses-in-its-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angolas-handball-team-loses-in-its-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola&#8217;s Handball Team Loses in Its Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Luanda \u2014 The national senior women&#8217;s handball team lost on Thursday against Netherland, by 31-34, in their debut at the Paris&#8217; 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In a Group B game, played at the Pavilion Arena in Paris, France, the African champions trailed by just one goal at half-time (18-19), in a match that was completely balanced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Vilma Nenganga and Helena Paulo were Angola&#8217;s top scorers with six goals each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">For the Netherlands, Polman and Malestein stood out, with eight goals each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">During the match, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407270020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 The national senior women&#8217;s handball team lost on Thursday against Netherland, by 31-34, in their debut at the Paris&#8217; 2024 Olympic Games. In a Group B game, played at the Pavilion Arena in Paris, France, the African champions trailed by just one goal at half-time (18-19), in a match that was completely balanced. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177384,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,13368,12156,10235,10569,257,254,7142],"class_list":["post-177383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-debut","tag-handball","tag-loses","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team"],"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\/177383","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}