{"id":241636,"date":"2026-08-20T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/malawi-cameroon-scorchers-fairytale-run-ends-in-3-0-final-defeat-but-brazil-world-cup-awaits\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:32:22","slug":"malawi-cameroon-scorchers-fairytale-run-ends-in-3-0-final-defeat-but-brazil-world-cup-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/malawi-cameroon-scorchers-fairytale-run-ends-in-3-0-final-defeat-but-brazil-world-cup-awaits\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi\/Cameroon: Scorchers&#8217; Fairytale Run Ends in 3-0 Final Defeat &#8211; &#8211; but Brazil World Cup Awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Debutant Scorchers outclassed by clinical Indomitable Lionesses despite fairytale run &#8212; as nation showers team with pride and Brazil World Cup dream becomes reality<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Malawi&#8217;s history-making Scorchers were brought crashing back down to earth on Sunday night, thrashed 3-0 by a ruthless Cameroon side in the final of the Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations &#8212; but nothing can take the shine off a tournament that has captured the heart of an entire nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The debutants, who arrived in Morocco as the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608170412.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debutant Scorchers outclassed by clinical Indomitable Lionesses despite fairytale run &#8212; as nation showers team with pride and Brazil World Cup dream becomes reality Malawi&#8217;s history-making Scorchers were brought crashing back down to earth on Sunday night, thrashed 3-0 by a ruthless Cameroon side in the final of the Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690173:b78a039cc8dadb3675d611e5bcb0affb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,11781,5066,377,6674,6531,7933,29310,6038,24492,257,7228,55051,254,5093],"class_list":["post-241636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awaits","tag-brazil","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cup","tag-defeat","tag-ends","tag-fairytale","tag-final","tag-malawicameroon","tag-news","tag-run","tag-scorchers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690173:b78a039cc8dadb3675d611e5bcb0affb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241636","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}