{"id":219298,"date":"2026-01-05T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-cameroon-charge-into-the-quarter-finals-south-africa-fall-short-2-1\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:15:21","slug":"africa-cameroon-charge-into-the-quarter-finals-south-africa-fall-short-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-cameroon-charge-into-the-quarter-finals-south-africa-fall-short-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Cameroon Charge into the Quarter-finals, South Africa Fall Short (2-1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Cassablanca \u2014 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Battered for half an hour, the Indomitable Lions bent but did not break before striking with clinical precision.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tchamadeu and then Kofane turned the Round of 16 match, despite a lively and dominant South Africa.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reduced to defending late in the game, the Cameroonians held firm under pressure to secure qualification in Rabat (2-1).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><strong>South Africa 1\u20132 Cameroon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><strong>Scorers:<\/strong> E. Makgopa \/ J. Tchamadeu 34\u2032, C. Kofane 37\u2032<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Suffocated, shaken, sometimes on the edge, Cameroon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601040051.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>Cassablanca \u2014 Battered for half an hour, the Indomitable Lions bent but did not break before striking with clinical precision. Tchamadeu and then Kofane turned the Round of 16 match, despite a lively and dominant South Africa.\u00a0 Reduced to defending late in the game, the Cameroonians held firm under pressure to secure qualification in Rabat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680384:786a583cc900a06b45f756cb9f9cb2d9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,5211,9140,257,15866,5196,5069,254],"class_list":["post-219298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-charge","tag-fall","tag-news","tag-quarterfinals","tag-short","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680384:786a583cc900a06b45f756cb9f9cb2d9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219298","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=219298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}