{"id":197289,"date":"2025-05-02T23:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-match-facts-four-time-winners-ghana-face-dr-congo-in-totalenergies-caf-u20-afcon-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T23:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:59:55","slug":"africa-match-facts-four-time-winners-ghana-face-dr-congo-in-totalenergies-caf-u20-afcon-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-match-facts-four-time-winners-ghana-face-dr-congo-in-totalenergies-caf-u20-afcon-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Match Facts &#8211; Four-Time Winners Ghana Face DR Congo in TotalEnergies CAF U20 Afcon Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em>Democratic Republic of Congo will face four times champions Ghana at the TotalEnergies CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Egypt 2025 when they meet in their Group C opener at the Suez Stadium on Friday (kick-off 21:00 local time \/ 18:00 GMT).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">It will be a first meeting between the side at the finals in this age-group, but DR Congo have played West African teams four times. Three of those games have been against Nigeria the other was versus Mali. DR Congo&#8217;s record against West African&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505020460.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Republic of Congo will face four times champions Ghana at the TotalEnergies CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Egypt 2025 when they meet in their Group C opener at the Suez Stadium on Friday (kick-off 21:00 local time \/ 18:00 GMT). It will be a first meeting between the side at the finals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197290,"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":[4507],"tags":[9488,258,256,3742,4554,7127,15730,51270,4508,4509,8778,257,13937,254,38847,8350,10771],"class_list":["post-197289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-congo","tag-face","tag-facts","tag-fourtime","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-match","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-south-africa-today","tag-totalenergies","tag-u20","tag-winners"],"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\/197289","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}