{"id":187426,"date":"2024-12-28T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/africa-fierce-rivalries-and-high-stakes-as-totalenergies-chan-2024-qualifiers-reach-climax\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T10:39:07","slug":"africa-fierce-rivalries-and-high-stakes-as-totalenergies-chan-2024-qualifiers-reach-climax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/africa-fierce-rivalries-and-high-stakes-as-totalenergies-chan-2024-qualifiers-reach-climax\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Fierce Rivalries and High Stakes As TotalEnergies CHAN 2024 Qualifiers Reach Climax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>The stage is set for an electrifying weekend as the second-leg matches of the 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers unfold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Topping the bill is the &#8220;Jollof Derby,&#8221; a historic clash between arch-rivals <strong>Ghana<\/strong> and <strong>Nigeria<\/strong>, with a spot in the CHAN finals at stake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">After a goalless first leg in Ghana, the Black Galaxies will head to Uyo, Nigeria, seeking to replicate their triumph over the Super Eagles B in last year&#8217;s qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Led by coach Didi Dramani, the Ghanaians&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412280023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stage is set for an electrifying weekend as the second-leg matches of the 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers unfold. Topping the bill is the &#8220;Jollof Derby,&#8221; a historic clash between arch-rivals Ghana and Nigeria, with a spot in the CHAN finals at stake. After a goalless first leg in Ghana, the Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630599:5e17c9153a741d2b5572d31bf5869052:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,11500,16219,12862,1124,6184,257,7318,5160,50282,254,13470,38847],"class_list":["post-187426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chan","tag-climax","tag-fierce","tag-guinea-news","tag-high","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-reach","tag-rivalries","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stakes","tag-totalenergies"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630599:5e17c9153a741d2b5572d31bf5869052:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187426","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}