{"id":222950,"date":"2026-02-06T00:13:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-futsal-ghana-zambia-draw-in-12-goal-thriller\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:13:43","slug":"zambia-futsal-ghana-zambia-draw-in-12-goal-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-futsal-ghana-zambia-draw-in-12-goal-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Futsal &#8211; Ghana, Zambia Draw in 12-Goal Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">GHANA and Zambia battled to a thrilling 6-6 draw in the first leg of the Futsal Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Black Stallions took an early lead through a free kick, but Zambia fought back to level the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Ghana restored their lead, but Zambia again equalised, setting the stage for a nail-biting finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">After the break, Ghana added to the tally, but the visitors quickly replied by pulling one back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Related Articles<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The tempo of the match changed quickly, with Ghana restoring their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602050300.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GHANA and Zambia battled to a thrilling 6-6 draw in the first leg of the Futsal Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. The Black Stallions took an early lead through a free kick, but Zambia fought back to level the game. Ghana restored their lead, but Zambia again equalised, setting the stage for a nail-biting finish. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222951,"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":[825],"tags":[53586,258,256,6981,12648,4508,257,254,14053,4709,881],"class_list":["post-222950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-12goal","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-draw","tag-futsal","tag-ghana","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thriller","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/222950","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=222950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}