{"id":213521,"date":"2025-11-13T21:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-9-african-teams-into-u-17-world-cup-last-32\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:10:24","slug":"ghana-9-african-teams-into-u-17-world-cup-last-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-9-african-teams-into-u-17-world-cup-last-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: 9 African Teams Into U-17 World Cup Last 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nine African sides have advanced to the <em>Round of 32<\/em> at the <em>FIFA U-17 World Cup Qatar 2025<\/em>, with two intra-African ties guaranteeing at least two quarter-final contenders from the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Zambia face Mali and Senegal meet Uganda in Friday-Saturday&#8217;s first knockout matches, while Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Burkina Faso, and Tunisia take on European, Asian, and North American opposition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Zambia meet Mali at <strong>Pitch 8, Mahmoud Soufi Stadium<\/strong>, in a heavyweight contest between two familiar African&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511130597.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine African sides have advanced to the Round of 32 at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Qatar 2025, with two intra-African ties guaranteeing at least two quarter-final contenders from the continent. Zambia face Mali and Senegal meet Uganda in Friday-Saturday&#8217;s first knockout matches, while Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Burkina Faso, and Tunisia take on European, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213522,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4380,6674,4508,4509,257,254,8492,9489,5093],"class_list":["post-213521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-cup","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teams","tag-u17","tag-world"],"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\/213521","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}