{"id":194057,"date":"2025-03-20T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers-leslie-notsi-lesotho-coach-it-will-be-a-great-encounter-between-two-neighbouring-countries\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:24:12","slug":"africa-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers-leslie-notsi-lesotho-coach-it-will-be-a-great-encounter-between-two-neighbouring-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers-leslie-notsi-lesotho-coach-it-will-be-a-great-encounter-between-two-neighbouring-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: FIFA World Cup Qualifiers &#8211; Leslie Notsi (Lesotho Coach) &#8216;It Will Be a Great Encounter Between Two Neighbouring Countries&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Friday evening&#8217;s FIFA World Cup Qualifier between South Africa and Lesotho is a highly anticipated and will be a great encounter between two neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">These were the sentiments of Lesotho head coach, Leslie Notsi who was speaking to CAFOnline on Tuesday morning ahead of Friday&#8217;s clash against South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The two nations meet at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane for a crucial tie that could see either of the two sides go top of Group C, barring the other group ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">&#8220;I think&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503180435.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>Friday evening&#8217;s FIFA World Cup Qualifier between South Africa and Lesotho is a highly anticipated and will be a great encounter between two neighbouring countries. These were the sentiments of Lesotho head coach, Leslie Notsi who was speaking to CAFOnline on Tuesday morning ahead of Friday&#8217;s clash against South Africa. The two nations meet at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621890:2c0dbe790e607f7cd27e0c0c456af98e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7346,6507,6674,7775,9109,8273,50903,4717,1407,10766,257,23327,7318,254,5093],"class_list":["post-194057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coach","tag-countries","tag-cup","tag-encounter","tag-fifa","tag-great","tag-leslie","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-neighbouring","tag-news","tag-notsi","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621890:2c0dbe790e607f7cd27e0c0c456af98e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194057","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=194057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}