{"id":202070,"date":"2025-07-10T02:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/namibia-botswana-brave-warriors-world-cup-qualifiers-move-to-botswana\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T02:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:08:56","slug":"namibia-botswana-brave-warriors-world-cup-qualifiers-move-to-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/namibia-botswana-brave-warriors-world-cup-qualifiers-move-to-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia\/Botswana: Brave Warriors&#8217; World Cup Qualifiers Move to Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>The Brave Warriors&#8217; remaining 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifying matches will now take place in Francistown, Botswana, Namibia Football Association (NFA) acting secretary general Cassius Moetie announced this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In an NFA statement, Moetie says the football association is proud to host its 2026 Fifa World Cup qualification home games against Malawi and Sao Tome in Francistown in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;The decision to move our home games venue from South Africa to Botswana was driven by cost. Namibia, through&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507090577.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brave Warriors&#8217; remaining 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifying matches will now take place in Francistown, Botswana, Namibia Football Association (NFA) acting secretary general Cassius Moetie announced this week. In an NFA statement, Moetie says the football association is proud to host its 2026 Fifa World Cup qualification home games against Malawi and Sao Tome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202071,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,12113,6674,4367,15156,257,7318,254,10304,5093],"class_list":["post-202070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-brave","tag-cup","tag-move","tag-namibiabotswana","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warriors","tag-world"],"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\/202070","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=202070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}