{"id":195096,"date":"2025-04-01T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-claim-big-win-in-totalenergies-caf-u17-afcon-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:36:59","slug":"zambia-claim-big-win-in-totalenergies-caf-u17-afcon-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-claim-big-win-in-totalenergies-caf-u17-afcon-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Claim Big Win in TotalEnergies CAF U17 Afcon Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Zambia made a bright start to their TotalEnergies CAF Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025 campaign with a 4-1 victory over Tanzania in their opening clash in Group A that was played at the Stade El Bachir in Mohammedia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Jonathan Kalimina settled any early nerves Zambia might have had with an opening goal inside eight minutes, before the star of the COSAFA Under-17 Championship Abel Nyirongo doubled their advantage just before halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Mike Mutale added a third 11 minutes from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504010087.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia made a bright start to their TotalEnergies CAF Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025 campaign with a 4-1 victory over Tanzania in their opening clash in Group A that was played at the Stade El Bachir in Mohammedia on Monday. Jonathan Kalimina settled any early nerves Zambia might have had with an opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195097,"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":[825],"tags":[9488,258,256,8559,3742,8667,257,13937,254,38847,9489,6660,4709,881],"class_list":["post-195096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-big","tag-caf","tag-claim","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-south-africa-today","tag-totalenergies","tag-u17","tag-win","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/195096","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=195096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}