{"id":214424,"date":"2025-11-21T21:15:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-hockey-teams-off-to-junior-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:15:49","slug":"namibia-hockey-teams-off-to-junior-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-hockey-teams-off-to-junior-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Hockey Teams Off to Junior World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s junior men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s hockey teams will embark on their Junior World Cup journeys when they fly out to India and Chile this weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Namibia&#8217;s men will compete in the Junior Men&#8217;s World Cup in Chennai and Madurai from 28 November to 10 December, while Namibia&#8217;s women will compete in the Junior Women&#8217;s World Cup in Santiago from 1 to 13 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The men&#8217;s team completed their local training with a convincing 7-1 victory against a select senior men&#8217;s team on Tuesday evening, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511200316.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia&#8217;s junior men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s hockey teams will embark on their Junior World Cup journeys when they fly out to India and Chile this weekend. Namibia&#8217;s men will compete in the Junior Men&#8217;s World Cup in Chennai and Madurai from 28 November to 10 December, while Namibia&#8217;s women will compete in the Junior Women&#8217;s World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214425,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,6674,8795,9730,4706,724,257,254,8492,5093],"class_list":["post-214424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-hockey","tag-junior","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teams","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\/214424","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=214424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}