{"id":193342,"date":"2025-03-11T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-chico-edmilson-return-to-mozambique-squad-for-2026-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:04:15","slug":"mozambique-chico-edmilson-return-to-mozambique-squad-for-2026-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-chico-edmilson-return-to-mozambique-squad-for-2026-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Chico, Edmilson Return to Mozambique Squad for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>Mozambique have recalled experienced defenders Chico and Edmilson to their squad plus added two fresh faces as they ready to take on Uganda and Algeria in key FIFA World Cup qualifiers this month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Mozambique share top place in Group G with Algeria on nine points and will take on their North African rivals in a top of the table clash in Tizi Ouzou on March 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">First, however, Mozambique&#8217;s Mambas will host Uganda on March 20 in a match that has been moved to Cairo from Maputo after the Zimpeto&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503110446.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozambique have recalled experienced defenders Chico and Edmilson to their squad plus added two fresh faces as they ready to take on Uganda and Algeria in key FIFA World Cup qualifiers this month. Mozambique share top place in Group G with Algeria on nine points and will take on their North African rivals in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193343,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,50829,6674,50830,9109,4704,682,257,7318,6656,254,8984,5093],"class_list":["post-193342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chico","tag-cup","tag-edmilson","tag-fifa","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-return","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","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\/193342","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=193342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}