{"id":197924,"date":"2025-05-12T05:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-egypt-shines-as-u-20-afcon-kicks-off-in-style\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T05:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:57:02","slug":"nigeria-egypt-egypt-shines-as-u-20-afcon-kicks-off-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-egypt-shines-as-u-20-afcon-kicks-off-in-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Egypt: Egypt Shines As U-20 Afcon Kicks Off in Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">As fireworks and traditional dancers lit up the stadium, the ceremony sent a clear message to the world: Africa&#8217;s next generation has arrived, and they are ready to shine<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The future of African football took center stage on Sunday evening as the CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt 2025, roared to life with a dazzling opening ceremony at Cairo International Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">As golden sunlight faded into Cairo&#8217;s night sky, the tournament officially began with a show that celebrated Africa&#8217;s vibrant spirit,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504280278.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>As fireworks and traditional dancers lit up the stadium, the ceremony sent a clear message to the world: Africa&#8217;s next generation has arrived, and they are ready to shine The future of African football took center stage on Sunday evening as the CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt 2025, roared to life with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197925,"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":[9488,258,256,4697,415,7023,257,12244,9249,254,16980,8350],"class_list":["post-197924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-kicks","tag-news","tag-nigeriaegypt","tag-shines","tag-south-africa-today","tag-style","tag-u20"],"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\/197924","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=197924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}