As many as 12 ladies who participated in previous instalments of Varsity Football were crowned champions of Africa with Banyana Banyana over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Our national women\u2019s football team beat Morocco 2-1 in an exciting Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations final in front of over 45 000 fans at the Prince Moulay Stadium in Rabat, Morocco on Saturday.<\/p>\n
It was a historic triumph for South African women\u2019s football, as Banyana finally won their first Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations title after losing five finals before.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, though, and throughout the tournament, the current crop of Banyana players showed their class as they ended the competition with six wins from their six games.<\/p>\n
The squad included six ladies from the 2021 instalment of Varsity Football, namely: Regirl Ngobeni , Bongeka Gamede, Amogelang Motau, Sibulele Holweni, Noxolo Cesane and Nomvula Kgoale, while 2019 Varsity Football winner Hildah Magaia (TUT) netted both goals in the final.<\/p>\n
Magaia, who was the captain of the TUT-winning squad in 2019, Cesane, Kgoale, Noko Matlou and captain Refiloe Jane were all in the starting XI for the 2-1 final win over Morocco after developing into important pillars in Desiree Ellis\u2019 squad.<\/p>\n
Jane, who was on the books of AC Milan over the last two years, played and scored in the 2017 Varsity Football final, which TUT won 4-0 against UJ, and Matlou was formerly playing for UJ before moving up the ranks in women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n
Kholosa Biyana of UKZN was a second-half substitute in Saturday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n
Ngobeni, Gamede, Motau, Holweni and Cesane all represented 2021 champions University of the Western Cape at last year\u2019s Varsity Football, while Kgoale was donning the TUT shirt in 2021.<\/p>\n
Thalea Smidt represented UWC between 2015 and 2017 and captained UP-Tuks in 2018, but remained an unused substitute in Saturday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n
In addition, Thembi Kgatlana, a 2016 Varsity Cup runners-up with UWC, was also part of the squad but had left the tournament after picking up a serious achilles injury in the final group stage match.<\/p>\n
Banyana also qualified for the 2023 FIFA World Cup and we\u2019re looking forward to see our ladies represent Varsity Football at the biggest stage in women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n
From the team of Varsity Football, we\u2019d like to congratulate Desiree Ellis and her whole squad on writing history this weekend. We\u2019re in particular proud of our 12 Varsity football representatives within the squad.<\/p>\n
The 2022 edition of Women\u2019s Varsity Football takes place from 9-14 October and includes the top eight university teams across the country.<\/p>\n
As many as 12 ladies who participated in previous instalments of Varsity Football were crowned champions of Africa with Banyana Banyana over the weekend. Our national women\u2019s football team beat Morocco 2-1 in an exciting Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations final in front of over 45 000 fans at the Prince Moulay Stadium in Rabat, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hildah-Magaia-2-625x448.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"12 Varsity Cup Ladies Crowned Champions Of Africa","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9355,1977],"class_list":["post-44031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-hildah-magaia","tag-varsity-cup"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hildah-Magaia-2-625x448.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"12 Varsity Cup Ladies Crowned Champions Of Africa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}