{"id":235708,"date":"2026-06-08T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-square-7-stun-blue-waters-unam-eliminate-stars-from-nfa-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:22:56","slug":"namibia-square-7-stun-blue-waters-unam-eliminate-stars-from-nfa-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-square-7-stun-blue-waters-unam-eliminate-stars-from-nfa-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Square 7 Stun Blue Waters &#8230; Unam Eliminate Stars From NFA Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Second-division outfit Square 7 FC produced one of the biggest upsets in the NFA Cup over the weekend, knocking out Blue Waters 4-2 on penalties to book their place in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Square 7 head coach Pro Nambundunga credited the victory to thorough preparation and his players&#8217; determination to advance in the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;We put in a lot of work in terms of preparation. The boys wanted this more than ever and, fortunately, our game plan worked. We managed to push Blue Waters all the way to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606080679.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-division outfit Square 7 FC produced one of the biggest upsets in the NFA Cup over the weekend, knocking out Blue Waters 4-2 on penalties to book their place in the quarterfinals. Square 7 head coach Pro Nambundunga credited the victory to thorough preparation and his players&#8217; determination to advance in the competition. &#8220;We put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235709,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,8473,6674,9788,4706,724,257,9079,254,11896,9435,12552,9261,7109],"class_list":["post-235708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blue","tag-cup","tag-eliminate","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nfa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-square","tag-stars","tag-stun","tag-unam","tag-waters"],"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\/235708","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=235708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}