{"id":193879,"date":"2025-03-18T19:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-broos-defines-lesotho-benin-clashes-as-key-moments-for-bafana-bafana\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:21:54","slug":"africa-broos-defines-lesotho-benin-clashes-as-key-moments-for-bafana-bafana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-broos-defines-lesotho-benin-clashes-as-key-moments-for-bafana-bafana\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Broos Defines Lesotho, Benin Clashes As Key Moments for Bafana Bafana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Head coach of the South African national team, Hugo Broos says the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers will be key for his sides&#8217; ambition of qualifying for next year&#8217;s global showpiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The former African champions take on neighbouring country Lesotho on Friday before travelling to Benin for Tuesday&#8217;s encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Bafana Bafana are second behind Rwanda in Group C who host Nigeria and before traveling to Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking ahead of the clash in Polokwane where the team arrived on Monday morning, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503180466.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach of the South African national team, Hugo Broos says the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers will be key for his sides&#8217; ambition of qualifying for next year&#8217;s global showpiece. The former African champions take on neighbouring country Lesotho on Friday before travelling to Benin for Tuesday&#8217;s encounter. Bafana Bafana are second behind Rwanda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,4348,4737,39798,12379,17903,7274,4717,1407,14792,257,254],"class_list":["post-193879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bafana","tag-benin","tag-broos","tag-clashes","tag-defines","tag-key","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-moments","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193879","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=193879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}