{"id":233532,"date":"2026-05-17T16:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/mali-angola-2026-u17-afcon-angola-vs-mali-opens-competitions-2nd-day\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:27:52","slug":"mali-angola-2026-u17-afcon-angola-vs-mali-opens-competitions-2nd-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/mali-angola-2026-u17-afcon-angola-vs-mali-opens-competitions-2nd-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali\/Angola: 2026 U17 Afcon &#8211; Angola Vs Mali Opens Competitions 2nd Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Luanda \u2014 Angola faces Mali on Thursday (14) afternoon 2pm, in Rabat, in a match of the first round of Group C of the 16th U-17 Africa Cup of Nations 2026 Edition, taking place in the Kingdom of Morocco from the 13th of the current month to the 2nd of June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">This is the 3rd confrontation between the two football teams at this level, after the victories of the Malians, by 6-1 and 2-1, in the 2017 and 2025 Editions, so the Angolans will seek to do their best in order to reverse the records and start&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150626.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Angola faces Mali on Thursday (14) afternoon 2pm, in Rabat, in a match of the first round of Group C of the 16th U-17 Africa Cup of Nations 2026 Edition, taking place in the Kingdom of Morocco from the 13th of the current month to the 2nd of June. This is the 3rd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233533,"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":[4262],"tags":[7577,9488,258,256,3941,4263,8046,7165,4637,54413,257,6975,254,9489],"class_list":["post-233532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-2nd","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-competitions","tag-day","tag-mali","tag-maliangola","tag-news","tag-opens","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u17"],"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\/233532","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=233532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}