{"id":197283,"date":"2025-05-02T23:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-look-to-home-comforts\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T23:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:50:23","slug":"southern-africa-namibia-look-to-home-comforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-look-to-home-comforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Namibia Look to Home Comforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Hosts Namibia will seek to use home ground to their advantage when they stage the Cosafa under-17 Girls&#8217; Championship in Windhoek, Namibia from May 10-17.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Namibia have found the going tough in the competition to date, losing all seven matches they have played and managing to score only two goals in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">They are the seeded team in Group A this time round along with Malawi and Comoros, with the top team in each pool to advance to the semifinals along with the best second-placed side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505020426.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts Namibia will seek to use home ground to their advantage when they stage the Cosafa under-17 Girls&#8217; Championship in Windhoek, Namibia from May 10-17. Namibia have found the going tough in the competition to date, losing all seven matches they have played and managing to score only two goals in the process. They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197284,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,20891,8849,4706,724,257,254,7153],"class_list":["post-197283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-comforts","tag-home","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"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\/197283","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=197283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}