{"id":198175,"date":"2025-05-16T00:18:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zim-under-17-girls-through-to-cosafa-cup-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T00:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:18:39","slug":"zimbabwe-zim-under-17-girls-through-to-cosafa-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zim-under-17-girls-through-to-cosafa-cup-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zim Under-17 Girls Through to Cosafa Cup Semi-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Zimbabwe under 17 girls team on Wednesday proceeded to the semi-finals of the COSAFA Cup tournament in Windhoek Namibia, after thrashing Lesotho 12-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Zimbabwe walked into the match as underdogs following a 3-0 defeat to Botswana on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A draw was enough for Lesotho to progress to the semi-finals, but a surprising defeat to Zimbabwe turned the tables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Dee Mapuwa and Mya Munyanduki scored four goals each as Zimbabwe knocked out last year&#8217;s finalists, who were being favoured by odds before the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505150246.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe under 17 girls team on Wednesday proceeded to the semi-finals of the COSAFA Cup tournament in Windhoek Namibia, after thrashing Lesotho 12-2. Zimbabwe walked into the match as underdogs following a 3-0 defeat to Botswana on Sunday. A draw was enough for Lesotho to progress to the semi-finals, but a surprising defeat to Zimbabwe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,9360,6674,7010,257,14292,254,22775,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-198175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cosafa","tag-cup","tag-girls","tag-news","tag-semifinals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-under17","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198175","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=198175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}