{"id":200260,"date":"2025-06-16T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-crowned-champions-of-cosafa-region-for-second-year-in-a-row\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:09:05","slug":"angola-crowned-champions-of-cosafa-region-for-second-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-crowned-champions-of-cosafa-region-for-second-year-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Crowned Champions of Cosafa Region for Second Year in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>Record-breaker Depu netted a brace of goals as Angola retained their COSAFA Cup crown with a 3-0 victory over hosts South Africa in the 2025 final played at the Toyota Stadium in Mangaung on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Angola&#8217;s back-to-back triumphs have taken their total wins in the competition to five, level with South Africa and behind only Zambia (seven) and Zimbabwe (six).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Comoros picked up the bronze medal with a 1-0 victory over fellow islanders Madagascar in the third-place play-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">South Africa almost took&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506160057.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record-breaker Depu netted a brace of goals as Angola retained their COSAFA Cup crown with a 3-0 victory over hosts South Africa in the 2025 final played at the Toyota Stadium in Mangaung on Sunday. Angola&#8217;s back-to-back triumphs have taken their total wins in the competition to five, level with South Africa and behind only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200261,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,14490,9360,11771,257,6324,9618,254,6537],"class_list":["post-200260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-champions","tag-crowned","tag-news","tag-row","tag-south-africa-today","tag-year"],"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\/200260","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=200260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}