{"id":247011,"date":"2026-10-13T04:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/morocco-zambia-zambia-futsal-profile-chipolopolo-return-to-morocco-seeking-to-make-their-mark\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T04:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:30:19","slug":"morocco-zambia-zambia-futsal-profile-chipolopolo-return-to-morocco-seeking-to-make-their-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/morocco-zambia-zambia-futsal-profile-chipolopolo-return-to-morocco-seeking-to-make-their-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\/Zambia: Zambia Futsal Profile &#8211; Chipolopolo Return to Morocco Seeking to Make Their Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Zambia return to the TotalEnergies CAF Futsal Africa Cup of Nations to make their fourth appearance at the continental finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Zambians secured their place at the 2026 tournament after overcoming Ghana in the qualification round, earning a place among the eight nations that will contest the finals in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The 2026 edition will be played in Morocco from 12 to 21 October, with Zambia <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/caf-futsal-africa-cup-of-nations\/news\/hosts-morocco-face-familiar-foes-at-totalenergies-caf-futsal-afcon-morocco-2026-after-final-draw-produces-exciting-group-stage-clashes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drawn in Group A<\/a> alongside hosts Morocco, Libya and Algeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><strong>TotalEnergies CAF Futsal AFCON History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610120233.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia return to the TotalEnergies CAF Futsal Africa Cup of Nations to make their fourth appearance at the continental finals. The Zambians secured their place at the 2026 tournament after overcoming Ghana in the qualification round, earning a place among the eight nations that will contest the finals in Morocco. The 2026 edition will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247012,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,9731,12648,9346,5609,29633,257,11261,6656,7679,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-247011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chipolopolo","tag-futsal","tag-mark","tag-morocco","tag-moroccozambia","tag-news","tag-profile","tag-return","tag-seeking","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/247011","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=247011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}