{"id":237750,"date":"2026-06-29T18:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-basketball-friendlies-angola-beats-georgia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:09:22","slug":"angola-basketball-friendlies-angola-beats-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-basketball-friendlies-angola-beats-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Basketball Friendlies &#8211; Angola Beats Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Luanda \u2014 Angola defeated Georgia 77-62, on Wednesday (24), in a preparation game played in Riga, Latvia, ahead of the 3rd qualifying window for the senior men&#8217;s basketball World Cup, scheduled for July 2-5 in Luanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The national team plays again on Thursday (25) against Ukraine, with their return to the capital city scheduled for Saturday (27).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In this 3rd and final preparation phase, following stops in Portugal and Spain, the national squad has now been joined by players Bruno Fernando and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250652.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 defeated Georgia 77-62, on Wednesday (24), in a preparation game played in Riga, Latvia, ahead of the 3rd qualifying window for the senior men&#8217;s basketball World Cup, scheduled for July 2-5 in Luanda. The national team plays again on Thursday (25) against Ukraine, with their return to the capital city scheduled for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237751,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,10261,8798,17202,18304,257,254],"class_list":["post-237750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-basketball","tag-beats","tag-friendlies","tag-georgia","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/237750","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=237750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}