{"id":201859,"date":"2025-07-07T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/nigeria-morocco-wafcon-chebbaks-late-stunner-rescues-morocco-in-opening-game-thriller-against-zambia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:03:34","slug":"nigeria-morocco-wafcon-chebbaks-late-stunner-rescues-morocco-in-opening-game-thriller-against-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/nigeria-morocco-wafcon-chebbaks-late-stunner-rescues-morocco-in-opening-game-thriller-against-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Morocco: WAFCON &#8211; Chebbak&#8217;s Late Stunner Rescues Morocco in Opening Game Thriller Against Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Barbra Banda shines as Copper Queens rattle hosts in Rabat, securing a historic draw that halts WAFCON opening day streak for Host Nations<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Morocco were left to dig deep on home soil as they clawed back to earn a dramatic 2-2 draw against Zambia in a pulsating Group A opener at the 2024 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/caf-womens-africa-cup-of-nations\/\" rel=\"noopener\">WAFCON<\/a><\/strong>) on Saturday night at the Stade Olympique, Rabat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">It was a match that had everything; goals, grit, and late drama, as both sides put on a thrilling display to set the tone for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507070508.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbra Banda shines as Copper Queens rattle hosts in Rabat, securing a historic draw that halts WAFCON opening day streak for Host Nations Morocco were left to dig deep on home soil as they clawed back to earn a dramatic 2-2 draw against Zambia in a pulsating Group A opener at the 2024 Women&#8217;s Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201860,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,51816,8500,8262,5609,257,39967,11416,7300,254,9575,14053,24869,4709,881],"class_list":["post-201859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chebbaks","tag-game","tag-late","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-nigeriamorocco","tag-opening","tag-rescues","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stunner","tag-thriller","tag-wafcon","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/201859","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=201859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}