{"id":180157,"date":"2024-09-08T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T02:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-matlama-defends-alliance-challenge-cup\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T02:27:10","slug":"lesotho-matlama-defends-alliance-challenge-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-matlama-defends-alliance-challenge-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Matlama Defends Alliance Challenge Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">MATLAMA have retained their place as pre-season Alliance Challenge Cup champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Maseru giants were crowned champions of the one-day tournament after edging Linare 8-7 on penalties at Bambatha T\u0161ita Sport Arena Ground at the weekend. This followed a goalless draw in regulation time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Matlama were the defending champions having also won the tournament in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The four-team tournament is an annual even held for Alliance Insurance premier league sponsored teams. These are Matlama, Lioli, Linare&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409020526.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>MATLAMA have retained their place as pre-season Alliance Challenge Cup champions. The Maseru giants were crowned champions of the one-day tournament after edging Linare 8-7 on penalties at Bambatha T\u0161ita Sport Arena Ground at the weekend. This followed a goalless draw in regulation time. Matlama were the defending champions having also won the tournament in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180158,"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":[258,256,12864,7485,6674,7820,4717,1407,14854,257,254],"class_list":["post-180157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alliance","tag-challenge","tag-cup","tag-defends","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-matlama","tag-news","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\/180157","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=180157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}