{"id":207118,"date":"2025-09-14T18:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/zimbabwe-mozambique-young-warriors-face-mozambique-in-cosafa-cup-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:42:45","slug":"zimbabwe-mozambique-young-warriors-face-mozambique-in-cosafa-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/zimbabwe-mozambique-young-warriors-face-mozambique-in-cosafa-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\/Mozambique: Young Warriors Face Mozambique in Cosafa Cup Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Zimbabwe boys under 17 team will kick off its CAF Africa Cup of Nations COSAFA Qualifiers campaign with a clash against Mozambique at Ngoni Stadium in Norton, Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">With 12 participants from across Southern Africa battling for honours, the Young Warriors will be hoping to take advantage of playing on home turf as they quest for an Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations qualification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Zimbabwe is in group A together with Mozambique, Comoros and Eswatini, while group B consists of Malawi,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509110115.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe boys under 17 team will kick off its CAF Africa Cup of Nations COSAFA Qualifiers campaign with a clash against Mozambique at Ngoni Stadium in Norton, Thursday afternoon. With 12 participants from across Southern Africa battling for honours, the Young Warriors will be hoping to take advantage of playing on home turf as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207119,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,9360,6674,7127,4704,682,257,13937,254,10304,7720,52320],"class_list":["post-207118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cosafa","tag-cup","tag-face","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warriors","tag-young","tag-zimbabwemozambique"],"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\/207118","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=207118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}