{"id":197886,"date":"2025-05-11T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-egypt-edge-south-africa-to-open-totalenergies-u-20-afcon-campaign-with-vital-win\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:56:19","slug":"africa-egypt-edge-south-africa-to-open-totalenergies-u-20-afcon-campaign-with-vital-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-egypt-edge-south-africa-to-open-totalenergies-u-20-afcon-campaign-with-vital-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Egypt Edge South Africa to Open TotalEnergies U-20 Afcon Campaign With Vital Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Hosts Egypt made a winning start to the TotalEnergies CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt 2025, with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over South Africa at Cairo International Stadium on Sunday evening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The match, played immediately after an impressive opening ceremony, was the second fixture of Group A, following a goalless draw between Zambia and Sierra Leone earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Mohamed Abdallah was the hero for the young Pharaohs, netting the decisive goal in the 62nd minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">A swift breakaway&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504280585.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts Egypt made a winning start to the TotalEnergies CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt 2025, with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over South Africa at Cairo International Stadium on Sunday evening. The match, played immediately after an impressive opening ceremony, was the second fixture of Group A, following a goalless draw between Zambia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197887,"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":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,4302,7126,4697,415,257,5983,5069,254,38847,8350,6609,6660],"class_list":["post-197886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-campaign","tag-edge","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-open","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-totalenergies","tag-u20","tag-vital","tag-win"],"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\/197886","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}