{"id":211206,"date":"2025-10-25T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-namibia-namibia-edged-by-zambia-in-first-leg-of-wafcon-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:06:09","slug":"zambia-namibia-namibia-edged-by-zambia-in-first-leg-of-wafcon-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-namibia-namibia-edged-by-zambia-in-first-leg-of-wafcon-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia\/Namibia: Namibia Edged By Zambia in First Leg of Wafcon Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Namibia showed plenty of fight to rally from two goals down but had to settle for a 4-2 defeat at the hands of COSAFA rivals Zambia in their TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2026 second-round, first-leg qualifier at the Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Zambia were 2-0 up early on, but Namibia scored twice early in the second half to pull the match back to 2-2, before Zambia captain Racheal Kundananji netted twice more to complete her hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The second&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230197.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>Namibia showed plenty of fight to rally from two goals down but had to settle for a 4-2 defeat at the hands of COSAFA rivals Zambia in their TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2026 second-round, first-leg qualifier at the Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto on Wednesday. Zambia were 2-0 up early on, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211207,"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":[258,256,19654,7491,4706,257,8496,254,24869,4709,881,18336],"class_list":["post-211206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-edged","tag-leg","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wafcon","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambianamibia"],"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\/211206","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=211206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}