{"id":215513,"date":"2025-12-02T21:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-afcon-2025-countdown-south-africa-cameroon-take-lead-with-final-squads\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:55:50","slug":"africa-afcon-2025-countdown-south-africa-cameroon-take-lead-with-final-squads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-afcon-2025-countdown-south-africa-cameroon-take-lead-with-final-squads\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Afcon 2025 Countdown &#8211; South Africa, Cameroon Take Lead With Final Squads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>From big-name omissions to bold youth movements, the latest lists from DR Congo, Cameroon and South Africa offer a revealing snapshot of ambition and strategy as Africa&#8217;s finest march toward December<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">With the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco barley 19 days away, the continent&#8217;s heavyweights are laying their cards on the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Final squad announcements have triggered jubilation, debate and, in some cases, outright shock, setting the tone for a tournament already brimming with intrigue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020304.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From big-name omissions to bold youth movements, the latest lists from DR Congo, Cameroon and South Africa offer a revealing snapshot of ambition and strategy as Africa&#8217;s finest march toward December With the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco barley 19 days away, the continent&#8217;s heavyweights are laying their cards on the table. Final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215514,"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":[376],"tags":[9488,258,256,4698,377,27229,6038,7358,257,5069,254,25243],"class_list":["post-215513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-countdown","tag-final","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squads"],"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\/215513","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=215513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}