{"id":222364,"date":"2026-01-31T00:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-begin-totalenergies-caf-afcon-2027-qualifier-preparations-under-interim-technical-team\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:06:32","slug":"lesotho-begin-totalenergies-caf-afcon-2027-qualifier-preparations-under-interim-technical-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-begin-totalenergies-caf-afcon-2027-qualifier-preparations-under-interim-technical-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Begin TotalEnergies CAF Afcon 2027 Qualifier Preparations Under Interim Technical Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><strong>The Lesotho senior national team, Likuena, returned to camp this week to begin preparations for their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2027 Preliminary Round tie against COSAFA rivals Seychelles, with the programme being overseen by an interim technical team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The interim arrangement will remain in place until the appointment of a new head coach, at which point the technical structure will be revised accordingly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The interim technical team is made up of Lehlohonolo Thotanyana, Tsepo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601300302.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lesotho senior national team, Likuena, returned to camp this week to begin preparations for their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2027 Preliminary Round tie against COSAFA rivals Seychelles, with the programme being overseen by an interim technical team. The interim arrangement will remain in place until the appointment of a new head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222365,"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":[1406],"tags":[9488,258,256,3742,8739,4717,1407,257,10078,8496,254,7142,7233,38847],"class_list":["post-222364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-interim","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-preparations","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-technical","tag-totalenergies"],"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\/222364","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=222364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}