{"id":243340,"date":"2026-09-05T08:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-benjamin-unleashes-foreign-legion-for-afcon-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:52:25","slug":"namibia-benjamin-unleashes-foreign-legion-for-afcon-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-benjamin-unleashes-foreign-legion-for-afcon-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Benjamin Unleashes Foreign Legion for Afcon Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em>Brave Warriors head coach Collin Benjamin has named a 29-man provisional squad for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) 2027 qualifiers against Congo and Comoros, with the selection largely comprising players plying their trade outside the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The squad includes players based in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Tanzania, among other destinations, highlighting the growing number of Namibian internationals competing in foreign leagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Benjamin has also emphasised leadership and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609040192.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Brave Warriors head coach Collin Benjamin has named a 29-man provisional squad for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) 2027 qualifiers against Congo and Comoros, with the selection largely comprising players plying their trade outside the country. The squad includes players based in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Tanzania, among other destinations, highlighting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243341,"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":[9488,258,256,15558,5169,10080,4706,724,257,7318,254,21051],"class_list":["post-243340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benjamin","tag-foreign","tag-legion","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unleashes"],"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\/243340","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=243340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}