{"id":201894,"date":"2025-07-08T02:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/morocco-zambia-chebbak-rescues-morocco-as-totalenergies-wafcon-opener-ends-in-draw\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T02:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:04:49","slug":"morocco-zambia-chebbak-rescues-morocco-as-totalenergies-wafcon-opener-ends-in-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/morocco-zambia-chebbak-rescues-morocco-as-totalenergies-wafcon-opener-ends-in-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\/Zambia: Chebbak Rescues Morocco As TotalEnergies Wafcon Opener Ends in Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Hosts Morocco were forced to settle for a 2-2 draw against Zambia in an entertaining start to the 2024 TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) at the Stade Olympique in Rabat on Saturday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">It was Zambia who struck first, stunning the home crowd with a goal inside the opening minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Barbra Banda capitalised on space just outside the box, unleashing a powerful low shot into the bottom left corner following a rapid counter-attack initiated by Margaret Belemu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">It was a dream&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507070169.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>Hosts Morocco were forced to settle for a 2-2 draw against Zambia in an entertaining start to the 2024 TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) at the Stade Olympique in Rabat on Saturday night. It was Zambia who struck first, stunning the home crowd with a goal inside the opening minute. Barbra Banda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201895,"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":[258,256,51817,6981,7933,5609,29633,257,13937,7300,254,38847,24869,881],"class_list":["post-201894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chebbak","tag-draw","tag-ends","tag-morocco","tag-moroccozambia","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-rescues","tag-south-africa-today","tag-totalenergies","tag-wafcon","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\/201894","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=201894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}