{"id":190491,"date":"2025-02-04T05:04:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T03:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-indoor-hockey-world-cup-spectacle-set-to-start\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T05:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T03:04:39","slug":"namibia-indoor-hockey-world-cup-spectacle-set-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-indoor-hockey-world-cup-spectacle-set-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Indoor Hockey World Cup Spectacle Set to Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>The Indoor Hockey World Cup finally gets underway in Porec, Croatia today with Namibia involved in two blockbuster matches this afternoon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">At 13h10 (14h10 Namibian time), Namibia&#8217;s men take on Belgium, while at 15h30 (16h30 Namibian time) Namibia&#8217;s women take on Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Namibia go into both of the matches as the underdogs, with Belgium ranked third in the world compared to Namibia&#8217;s 14th ranking, while Australia&#8217;s women are ranked fifth compared to Namibia&#8217;s 12th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Both Namibia&#8217;s men and women&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502030274.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indoor Hockey World Cup finally gets underway in Porec, Croatia today with Namibia involved in two blockbuster matches this afternoon. At 13h10 (14h10 Namibian time), Namibia&#8217;s men take on Belgium, while at 15h30 (16h30 Namibian time) Namibia&#8217;s women take on Australia. Namibia go into both of the matches as the underdogs, with Belgium ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190492,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,6674,8795,13991,4706,724,257,7106,254,40859,7138,5093],"class_list":["post-190491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-hockey","tag-indoor","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spectacle","tag-start","tag-world"],"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\/190491","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=190491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}