{"id":202705,"date":"2025-07-18T02:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-shines-at-european-inline-hockey-champs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T02:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:39:01","slug":"namibia-shines-at-european-inline-hockey-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-shines-at-european-inline-hockey-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Shines At European Inline Hockey Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s junior men (u19) and u17 men&#8217;s teams have been in great form at the European Inline Hockey Championships currently underway in Cittadella, Italy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Namibia&#8217;s u19s finished sixth overall, while the u17s are currently on top of their group after winning their opening two matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In the junior men&#8217;s competition, Namibia got off to a slow start in the group stages, losing 5-3 to Switzerland and 8-1 to Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">This put them into the President&#8217;s Cup for the first round losers, where they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507170612.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia&#8217;s junior men (u19) and u17 men&#8217;s teams have been in great form at the European Inline Hockey Championships currently underway in Cittadella, Italy. Namibia&#8217;s u19s finished sixth overall, while the u17s are currently on top of their group after winning their opening two matches. In the junior men&#8217;s competition, Namibia got off to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202706,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,11203,6442,8795,16202,4706,724,257,9249,254],"class_list":["post-202705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-champs","tag-european","tag-hockey","tag-inline","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-shines","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/202705","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=202705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}