{"id":248348,"date":"2026-10-27T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-lead-cosafa-charge-as-fifa-under-15-world-cup-enters-next-phase\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T21:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:30:18","slug":"angola-lead-cosafa-charge-as-fifa-under-15-world-cup-enters-next-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-lead-cosafa-charge-as-fifa-under-15-world-cup-enters-next-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Lead Cosafa Charge As FIFA Under-15 World Cup Enters Next Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\"><strong>Angola have emerged as the standout COSAFA side at the inaugural FIFA Under-15 World Cup &amp; Festival in Azerbaijan, winning all five of their group matches to remain in contention for the tournament&#8217;s top honour as the competition moves into its second phase on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Southern African nation was the only one of the 14 COSAFA representatives to finish top of its group, while South Africa, Zambia and Madagascar also produced impressive performances to earn places in the second tier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610270378.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Angola have emerged as the standout COSAFA side at the inaugural FIFA Under-15 World Cup &amp; Festival in Azerbaijan, winning all five of their group matches to remain in contention for the tournament&#8217;s top honour as the competition moves into its second phase on Wednesday. The Southern African nation was the only one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248349,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,5211,9360,6674,9519,9109,7358,257,7136,254,55717,5093],"class_list":["post-248348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-charge","tag-cosafa","tag-cup","tag-enters","tag-fifa","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-phase","tag-south-africa-today","tag-under15","tag-world"],"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\/248348","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=248348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}