{"id":211067,"date":"2025-10-24T08:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/southern-africa-zambia-take-two-goal-lead\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:04:20","slug":"southern-africa-zambia-take-two-goal-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/southern-africa-zambia-take-two-goal-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Zambia Take Two-Goal Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Zambia beat Namibia 4-2 in their Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier match in Johannesburg today to take the advantage heading into their return leg match in Zambia on 26 October.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Zambia opened the scoring in the 12th minute when an unmarked Racheal Kundananji received a cross from Eneless Phiri to put the ball into an empty net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Zambia kept on attacking and four minutes later it was 2-0 when Racheal Nachula kneed in a cross by Grace Chanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Kundananji continued to torment Namibia&#8217;s defence,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230637.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>Zambia beat Namibia 4-2 in their Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier match in Johannesburg today to take the advantage heading into their return leg match in Zambia on 26 October. Zambia opened the scoring in the 12th minute when an unmarked Racheal Kundananji received a cross from Eneless Phiri to put the ball into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211068,"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":[258,256,7358,257,254,7153,18197,4709,881],"class_list":["post-211067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-twogoal","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\/211067","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=211067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}