{"id":59238,"date":"2024-10-12T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T07:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=59238"},"modified":"2024-10-12T09:16:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T07:16:41","slug":"sa-shines-at-caf-african-schools-football-champs-cosafa-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=59238","title":{"rendered":"SA shines at CAF African Schools Football Champs | Cosafa qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Africa’s Leonay Kock received the player of the match award in the 2024 CAF African Schools Football Champions COSAFA Qualifiers match between South Africa and Angola at the Jan Wilken Stadium in Walvis Bay, Namibia on 11 October. Photo: Nokwanda Zondi\/BackpagePix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The South African boys’ and girls’<\/strong> teams excelled on the first day of the CAF African Schools Football Championship | Cosafa qualifiers<\/strong>, collectively netting a total of 24 goals, with the girls’ team contributing a whopping 20 of those in Walvis Bay, Namibia, on Friday.<\/p>\n

The defending champions, chasing a third consecutive CAF African Schools Football Championship | Cosafa qualifiers title, not only delivered exceptional attacking performances but both the boys’ and girls’ sides kept clean sheets.<\/p>\n

South Africa opened their Group B <\/strong>challenge in the girls’ competition with a pair of thumping wins, crushing Zimbabwe<\/strong> 7-0 before overwhelming Angola <\/strong>13-0.<\/p>\n

That result was one goal shy of the competition record victory they achieved against the same opposition in Harare last year.<\/p>\n

Although they have not yet completed their group assignments, the South African girls have already secured a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

The South African boys’ team scored a hard-fought 1-0 win over Zimbabwe in their opener and followed that up with a 3-0 victory over Angola in their second outing, which means that they, too, are through to the final four.<\/p>\n

Both South African teams are top of their groups after the first day of action. Their group opponents include Zimbabwe, Angola, and Eswatini.<\/p>\n

Group A features Namibia, Malawi, Lesotho, and Zambia.<\/p>\n

RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boys’ Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Group A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Namibia 0-5 Malawi
\nZambia 0-3 Lesotho*
\nNamibia 0-1 Zambia
\nMalawi 4-0 Lesotho<\/p>\n

Group B<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Africa 1-0 Zimbabwe
\nAngola 1-1 Eswatini
\nSouth Africa 3-0 Angola<\/p>\n

* Lesotho awarded a 3-0 walkover as Zambia was not present.<\/p>\n

Girls’ Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Group A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Namibia 2-2 Malawi
\nZambia 0-3 Lesotho*
\nNamibia 3-0 Zambia*
\nMalawi 5-0 Lesotho<\/p>\n

Group B<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Africa 7-0 Zimbabwe
\nAngola 0-5 Eswatini
\nSouth Africa 13-0 Angola<\/p>\n

* Lesotho and Namibia awarded 3-0 walkovers as Zambia was not present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The South African boys’ and girls’ teams excelled on the first day of the CAF African Schools Football Championship | Cosafa qualifiers, collectively netting a total of 24 goals, with the girls’ team contributing a whopping 20 of those in Walvis Bay, Namibia, on Friday. The defending champions, chasing a third consecutive CAF African Schools […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":59242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}