{"id":208040,"date":"2025-09-24T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mafoso-confident-of-beating-vipers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:03:01","slug":"namibia-mafoso-confident-of-beating-vipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mafoso-confident-of-beating-vipers\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mafoso Confident of Beating Vipers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>African Stars coach Bob Mafoso believes they can still beat Ugandan champions SC Vipers despite suffering a 1-0 defeat in Cape Town on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Vipers defender Hillary Mukundane scored the solitary goal after only 13 minutes in their CAF Champions League qualifier first leg encounter at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town, to give the Ugandan champions the edge heading into their second leg encounter in Uganda next weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Mafoso, however, believes that they can turn the tie around with a winning&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509230701.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>African Stars coach Bob Mafoso believes they can still beat Ugandan champions SC Vipers despite suffering a 1-0 defeat in Cape Town on Friday. Vipers defender Hillary Mukundane scored the solitary goal after only 13 minutes in their CAF Champions League qualifier first leg encounter at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town, to give the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208041,"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":[258,256,8028,4376,28710,4706,724,257,254,25421],"class_list":["post-208040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beating","tag-confident","tag-mafoso","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vipers"],"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\/208040","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=208040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}