{"id":197285,"date":"2025-05-02T23:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-hope-to-turn-silver-into-gold\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T23:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:54:41","slug":"lesotho-hope-to-turn-silver-into-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-hope-to-turn-silver-into-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Hope to Turn Silver Into Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Lesotho will be hoping to go one better when they compete at the COSAFA Under-17 Girls&#8217; Championship to be staged in Windhoek, Namibia from May 10-17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Lesotho were on debut at the previous regional finals in Johannesburg last December and made it all the way to the final before a humbling 15-0 loss to Zambia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">It was a one-sided decider, but Lesotho had done superbly to get that far and only conceded two goals in their four games before the final, scoring a whopping 17 themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">That shows their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505020197.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>Lesotho will be hoping to go one better when they compete at the COSAFA Under-17 Girls&#8217; Championship to be staged in Windhoek, Namibia from May 10-17. Lesotho were on debut at the previous regional finals in Johannesburg last December and made it all the way to the final before a humbling 15-0 loss to Zambia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197286,"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":[258,256,4644,8868,4717,1407,257,12115,254,7101],"class_list":["post-197285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gold","tag-hope","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-silver","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turn"],"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\/197285","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=197285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}