{"id":215441,"date":"2025-12-02T02:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/southern-africa-namibia-in-historic-win-against-egypt\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:02:19","slug":"southern-africa-namibia-in-historic-win-against-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/southern-africa-namibia-in-historic-win-against-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Namibia in Historic Win Against Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>Namibia sealed a historic 4-2 victory against Egypt at the Junior Men&#8217;s Hockey World Cup in India yesterday to blow new life into their world cup campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Namibia had beaten Egypt once before &#8211; at the Junior World Cup Qualifier in April this year, but now they have done it for the first time on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Namibia had opened their campaign with a sobering 12-1 defeat to Belgium on Friday, but bounced back with a top-class performance against Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020001.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia sealed a historic 4-2 victory against Egypt at the Junior Men&#8217;s Hockey World Cup in India yesterday to blow new life into their world cup campaign. Namibia had beaten Egypt once before &#8211; at the Junior World Cup Qualifier in April this year, but now they have done it for the first time on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":215442,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,13203,4706,257,254,7153,6660],"class_list":["post-215441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-historic","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-win"],"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\/215441","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}