{"id":195737,"date":"2025-04-09T22:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T20:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-zambia-south-africa-into-totalenergies-caf-u17-afcon-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T22:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T20:54:47","slug":"africa-zambia-south-africa-into-totalenergies-caf-u17-afcon-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-zambia-south-africa-into-totalenergies-caf-u17-afcon-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Zambia, South Africa Into TotalEnergies CAF U17 Afcon Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Zambia and South Africa have both advanced to the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025 quarter-finals and in doing so earned a place at this years&#8217; 2025 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Both finished runners-up in their respective pools in Morocco, which was enough for a quarter-final spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Ten teams from the continental finals will take their place at the World Cup &#8211; the eight sides into the quarter-finals and two more third-placed teams via a play-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Angola still have a shot&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504090532.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 and South Africa have both advanced to the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025 quarter-finals and in doing so earned a place at this years&#8217; 2025 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Qatar. Both finished runners-up in their respective pools in Morocco, which was enough for a quarter-final spot. Ten teams from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195738,"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":[9488,258,256,3742,257,15866,5069,254,38847,9489,4709,881],"class_list":["post-195737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-news","tag-quarterfinals","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-totalenergies","tag-u17","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\/195737","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=195737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}