{"id":178953,"date":"2024-08-21T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/malawi-botswana-hosts-ascent-soccer-booted-out-of-caf-womens-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:59:07","slug":"malawi-botswana-hosts-ascent-soccer-booted-out-of-caf-womens-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/malawi-botswana-hosts-ascent-soccer-booted-out-of-caf-womens-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi\/Botswana: Hosts Ascent Soccer Booted Out of CAF Women&#8217;s Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Botswana&#8217;s Gaborone United came from behind twice to see off hosts Ascent Soccer 3-2 on Tuesday afternoon to qualify for the semifinals of the CAF Women&#8217;s Champions League-COSAFA qualifiers played at Mpira Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Faith Chinzimu and her strike partner Alephar Chimbeta struck early for Ascent in between Keitumetse Dithibe&#8217;s strike for United in the Group B match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Malawians led 2-1 at break before surrendering the lead in the second half largely due to sloppy defending and Patricia Kachepa&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408210361.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana&#8217;s Gaborone United came from behind twice to see off hosts Ascent Soccer 3-2 on Tuesday afternoon to qualify for the semifinals of the CAF Women&#8217;s Champions League-COSAFA qualifiers played at Mpira Stadium. Faith Chinzimu and her strike partner Alephar Chimbeta struck early for Ascent in between Keitumetse Dithibe&#8217;s strike for United in the Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178954,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,14346,23455,2462,3742,14490,6574,7027,25193,257,4303,254,6460],"class_list":["post-178953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ascent","tag-booted","tag-botswana-news","tag-caf","tag-champions","tag-hosts","tag-league","tag-malawibotswana","tag-news","tag-soccer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-womens"],"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\/178953","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=178953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}