{"id":179206,"date":"2024-08-25T03:45:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T01:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-south-africa-khumalo-eager-to-see-fresh-talent-as-amajimbos-prepare-to-host-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T03:45:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T01:45:17","slug":"lesotho-south-africa-khumalo-eager-to-see-fresh-talent-as-amajimbos-prepare-to-host-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-south-africa-khumalo-eager-to-see-fresh-talent-as-amajimbos-prepare-to-host-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho\/South Africa: Khumalo Eager to See Fresh Talent As Amajimbos Prepare to Host Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">This will be the first time Amajimbos host another nation in recent months after participating in away tournaments and international friendlies in Morocco and Colombia this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Coach Vela Khumalo is eager to see what the new pool of players will bring to the field and is hoping to work on new combinations as Amajimbos continue their preparations for the 2024 COSAFA U17 Championships, which will be held in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8220;It is always exciting to play at home, and we really wish the supporters&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408160100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the first time Amajimbos host another nation in recent months after participating in away tournaments and international friendlies in Morocco and Colombia this year. Coach Vela Khumalo is eager to see what the new pool of players will bring to the field and is hoping to work on new combinations as Amajimbos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179207,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,17357,21036,8936,6937,14171,4717,1407,21726,257,6805,254,6289],"class_list":["post-179206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amajimbos","tag-eager","tag-fresh","tag-host","tag-khumalo","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothosouth","tag-news","tag-prepare","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talent"],"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\/179206","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=179206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}