{"id":204215,"date":"2025-08-08T03:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/congo-kinshasa-zambia-zambia-eye-winning-start-as-dr-congo-look-to-bounce-back\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T03:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:11:53","slug":"congo-kinshasa-zambia-zambia-eye-winning-start-as-dr-congo-look-to-bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/congo-kinshasa-zambia-zambia-eye-winning-start-as-dr-congo-look-to-bounce-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-Kinshasa\/Zambia: Zambia Eye Winning Start As DR Congo Look to Bounce Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Zambia will launch their TotalEnergies CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024 campaign on Thursday afternoon with a high-stakes clash against two-time champions DR Congo at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Chipolopolo are aiming to make a strong start in their quest for a maiden CHAN title, hoping to better their best-ever finish &#8212; third place in the 2009 edition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Head coach Avram Grant, however, says his broader ambition extends beyond the tournament, as he seeks to lay the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508070279.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>Zambia will launch their TotalEnergies CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024 campaign on Thursday afternoon with a high-stakes clash against two-time champions DR Congo at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi. The Chipolopolo are aiming to make a strong start in their quest for a maiden CHAN title, hoping to better their best-ever finish &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204216,"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":[258,256,4420,4554,52051,9381,257,254,7138,15104,4709,881],"class_list":["post-204215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bounce","tag-congo","tag-congokinshasazambia","tag-eye","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-winning","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\/204215","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=204215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}