{"id":239810,"date":"2026-07-29T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/zambia-egypt-banda-stars-as-clinical-zambia-cruise-past-egypt-in-group-c-opener\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:56:00","slug":"zambia-egypt-banda-stars-as-clinical-zambia-cruise-past-egypt-in-group-c-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/zambia-egypt-banda-stars-as-clinical-zambia-cruise-past-egypt-in-group-c-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia\/Egypt: Banda Stars As Clinical Zambia Cruise Past Egypt in Group C Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Barbra Banda delivered a captain&#8217;s performance of the highest order as Zambia opened their TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026 campaign with a commanding 6-0 victory over Egypt at the Olympic Stadium in Rabat on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Copper Queens skipper was directly involved in five of the six goals, scoring four times and providing an assist in a dominant display that sent Zambia to the top of Group C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Zambia signalled their intentions early, with Banda almost breaking through&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607290459.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbra Banda delivered a captain&#8217;s performance of the highest order as Zambia opened their TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026 campaign with a commanding 6-0 victory over Egypt at the Olympic Stadium in Rabat on Tuesday. The Copper Queens skipper was directly involved in five of the six goals, scoring four times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,8127,32027,10674,4697,415,5192,257,13937,254,9435,4709,9130],"class_list":["post-239810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banda","tag-clinical","tag-cruise","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-group","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-zambia","tag-zambiaegypt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239810","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}