{"id":205422,"date":"2025-08-25T05:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-congo-kinshasa-angola-loses-to-drc-and-misses-chan2025-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:31:49","slug":"angola-congo-kinshasa-angola-loses-to-drc-and-misses-chan2025-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-congo-kinshasa-angola-loses-to-drc-and-misses-chan2025-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola\/Congo-Kinshasa: Angola Loses to DRC and Misses CHAN&#8217;2025 Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Luanda \u2014 The Angolan national football team lost 0-2 to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday, in the fourth Group A match, played at the Moi International Sports Center stadium in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">With this result, the Angolans were left out of the quarterfinals of the African Football Championship (CHAN&#8217;2025).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Players Kitambala and Mokonzi scored the goals for the Democratic Republic of Congo, eliminating the Angolan team early from the competition being held in Kenya, Uganda and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508220057.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 The Angolan national football team lost 0-2 to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday, in the fourth Group A match, played at the Moi International Sports Center stadium in Kenya. With this result, the Angolans were left out of the quarterfinals of the African Football Championship (CHAN&#8217;2025). Players Kitambala and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205423,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,45086,52196,279,10569,13107,257,15866,254],"class_list":["post-205422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolacongokinshasa","tag-chan2025","tag-drc","tag-loses","tag-misses","tag-news","tag-quarterfinals","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\/205422","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=205422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}