{"id":180354,"date":"2024-09-11T04:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T02:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-still-in-search-of-first-cosafa-under-20-title\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T04:39:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T02:39:39","slug":"angola-still-in-search-of-first-cosafa-under-20-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-still-in-search-of-first-cosafa-under-20-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Still in Search of First Cosafa Under-20 Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Angola will be hoping to make history when they compete at the 2024 TotalEnergies CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations 2025 | COSAFA Qualifier, seeking to win the regional title for the first time in their history in Maputo from September 26-October 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Angola have reached the semifinals in seven of the previous eight editions, but advanced to the final only once in that time, where they lost to Zambia in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">To book a ticket to the continental finals they will need to finish in the top two in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409100022.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>Angola will be hoping to make history when they compete at the 2024 TotalEnergies CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations 2025 | COSAFA Qualifier, seeking to win the regional title for the first time in their history in Maputo from September 26-October 5. Angola have reached the semifinals in seven of the previous eight editions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180355,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,9360,257,9020,254,6675,8983],"class_list":["post-180354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-cosafa","tag-news","tag-search","tag-south-africa-today","tag-title","tag-under20"],"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\/180354","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=180354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}