{"id":181144,"date":"2024-09-23T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-look-for-lucky-13-at-regional-under-20-championship\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T17:31:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:31:19","slug":"zambia-look-for-lucky-13-at-regional-under-20-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-look-for-lucky-13-at-regional-under-20-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Look for Lucky 13 At Regional Under-20 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Zambia will be hoping to extend their record number of COSAFA titles at Under-20 level to 13 when they compete in Mozambique this year as defending champions, having claimed the title two years ago in Eswatini.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">They have been remarkably consistent at this level &#8211; in the nine tournaments they have played since 2010, they have won five to go with two fourth-place finishes and two exits in the pool stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Their road to the title in 2022 included group stage wins over Mauritius (3-0), Eswatini (2-0)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409230484.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia will be hoping to extend their record number of COSAFA titles at Under-20 level to 13 when they compete in Mozambique this year as defending champions, having claimed the title two years ago in Eswatini. They have been remarkably consistent at this level &#8211; in the nine tournaments they have played since 2010, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181145,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,6843,11011,257,4268,254,8983,4709,881],"class_list":["post-181144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-championship","tag-lucky","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-under20","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/181144","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=181144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}