{"id":210202,"date":"2025-10-17T19:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/namibia-zambia-namibia-ready-for-wafcon-2026-qualifier-against-cosafa-rivals-zambia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:51:14","slug":"namibia-zambia-namibia-ready-for-wafcon-2026-qualifier-against-cosafa-rivals-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/namibia-zambia-namibia-ready-for-wafcon-2026-qualifier-against-cosafa-rivals-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia\/Zambia: Namibia Ready for Wafcon 2026 Qualifier Against Cosafa Rivals Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Brave Gladiators head coach Lucky Kakuva has named his final squad for next week&#8217;s TotalEnergies CAF Women African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) 2026 qualifier against Zambia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">This final selection comes after a rigorous and intensive three-week training camp, during which the technical team assessed the players&#8217; readiness for the upcoming challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Brave Gladiators are set to face Zambia in the decisive second round of the qualifiers. They face Zambia on October 22 at the Dobsonville Stadium at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510170267.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>Brave Gladiators head coach Lucky Kakuva has named his final squad for next week&#8217;s TotalEnergies CAF Women African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) 2026 qualifier against Zambia. This final selection comes after a rigorous and intensive three-week training camp, during which the technical team assessed the players&#8217; readiness for the upcoming challenge. The Brave Gladiators are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210203,"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":[258,256,9360,4706,21646,257,8496,8479,10195,254,24869,4709,881],"class_list":["post-210202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cosafa","tag-namibia","tag-namibiazambia","tag-news","tag-qualifier","tag-ready","tag-rivals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wafcon","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\/210202","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=210202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}