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Zambia and Madagascar produced impressive victories as the knockout phase of the inaugural FIFA Under-15 World Cup & Festival continued in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday, while South Africa and Angola suffered contrasting fortunes.<\/strong><\/p>\n The 14 COSAFA nations are competing in the historic tournament, which features 189 teams playing eight-a-side football in matches lasting 40 minutes.<\/p>\n The competition has been divided into six tiers following the opening group stage, with teams competing for individual…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Zambia and Madagascar produced impressive victories as the knockout phase of the inaugural FIFA Under-15 World Cup & Festival continued in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday, while South Africa and Angola suffered contrasting fortunes. The 14 COSAFA nations are competing in the historic tournament, which features 189 teams playing eight-a-side football in matches lasting 40 minutes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248559,"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":[258,256,7887,9360,6674,9109,9437,7973,30239,257,11202,254,8492,20368,5093,4709,881],"class_list":["post-248558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-cosafa","tag-cup","tag-fifa","tag-honours","tag-madagascar","tag-madagascarzambia","tag-news","tag-shine","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teams","tag-u15","tag-world","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\/248558","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=248558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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