{"id":218425,"date":"2025-12-29T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-zimbabwe-bafana-bafana-focused-on-zimbabwean-challenge-after-falling-short-against-egypt\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:45:24","slug":"south-africa-zimbabwe-bafana-bafana-focused-on-zimbabwean-challenge-after-falling-short-against-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/south-africa-zimbabwe-bafana-bafana-focused-on-zimbabwean-challenge-after-falling-short-against-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\/Zimbabwe: Bafana Bafana Focused On Zimbabwean Challenge After Falling Short Against Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Hugo Broos&#8217;s troops want to beat Zimbabwe in their final Group B game on Monday, to qualify for the round of 16 on a winning note.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In tournament soccer, there is little time to mope around in the aftermath of a disappointing result. It&#8217;s important to keep moving. Someone as experienced as Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos knows this well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">He will impart this wisdom to his players ahead of their crucial final group-stage game against Zimbabwe at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), taking place in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Broos&#8217;s troops want to beat Zimbabwe in their final Group B game on Monday, to qualify for the round of 16 on a winning note. In tournament soccer, there is little time to mope around in the aftermath of a disappointing result. It&#8217;s important to keep moving. Someone as experienced as Bafana Bafana coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,21673,4348,7485,4697,10859,10060,257,5196,5069,254,421,325],"class_list":["post-218425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africazimbabwe","tag-bafana","tag-challenge","tag-egypt","tag-falling","tag-focused","tag-news","tag-short","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218425","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=218425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}