{"id":209615,"date":"2025-10-12T07:32:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/southern-africa-angola-celebrates-20-years-of-world-cup-qualification\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:32:55","slug":"southern-africa-angola-celebrates-20-years-of-world-cup-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/southern-africa-angola-celebrates-20-years-of-world-cup-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Angola Celebrates 20 Years of World Cup Qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Luanda \u2014 Angola celebrates on Wednesday the 20th anniversary of its unprecedented qualification for the 2026 World Cup in Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The historic feat took place on October 8th at the Amahoro International Stadium in Rwanda, with a goal by Akwa, considered one of the most important goals of the &#8220;Palancas Negras.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The former captain&#8217;s goal also marked the unprecedented qualification of Portuguese-speaking African countries for world football&#8217;s biggest competition, after decades of failed&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510090569.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 Angola celebrates on Wednesday the 20th anniversary of its unprecedented qualification for the 2026 World Cup in Germany. The historic feat took place on October 8th at the Amahoro International Stadium in Rwanda, with a goal by Akwa, considered one of the most important goals of the &#8220;Palancas Negras.&#8221; The former captain&#8217;s goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209616,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,6547,6674,257,13369,254,7153,5093,5114],"class_list":["post-209615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-celebrates","tag-cup","tag-news","tag-qualification","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-world","tag-years"],"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\/209615","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=209615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}