{"id":202477,"date":"2025-07-15T14:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-south-africa-sa-zambia-claim-u20-football-titles\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:23:32","slug":"zambia-south-africa-sa-zambia-claim-u20-football-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-south-africa-sa-zambia-claim-u20-football-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia\/South Africa: SA, Zambia Claim U20 Football Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>South Africa and Zambia both retained their Cosafa under-20 crowns for men and women respectively as they claimed the gold medals in the Region 5 Games football finals that were played in Windhoek, Namibia on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">African champions South Africa defeated Malawi 3-0 in the final at the Unam Stadium, while Zambia defeated South Africa 2-0 in the women&#8217;s decider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The matches brought to an end a thrilling set of competitions that highlighted the incredible talent in the Southern African region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507150168.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>South Africa and Zambia both retained their Cosafa under-20 crowns for men and women respectively as they claimed the gold medals in the Region 5 Games football finals that were played in Windhoek, Namibia on Sunday. African champions South Africa defeated Malawi 3-0 in the final at the Unam Stadium, while Zambia defeated South Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202478,"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":[258,256,8667,3299,257,254,12461,8350,4709,881,13309],"class_list":["post-202477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claim","tag-football","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-titles","tag-u20","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambiasouth"],"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\/202477","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=202477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}