{"id":333075,"date":"2025-12-03T08:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=333075"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:49:45","slug":"atlas-lionesses-defeated-by-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/atlas-lionesses-defeated-by-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas Lionesses defeated by South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations 2026 approaches, set to take place in Morocco from March 17 to April 3, the national women&#8217;s team faced South Africa on Tuesday, December 2, as part of their preparation. For the third consecutive time, Morocco will host the continental tournament, which will also serve as a qualifier for the 2027 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Under the guidance of Jorge Vilda, the Atlas Lionesses took on South Africa at the Grand Stadium of Agadir. Against a nation accustomed to major African competitions, the Moroccans lost 2-0. The South Africans made the difference late in the match with goals from Nonhlanhla Mthandi (70th minute) and Sinoxolo Cesane (86th minute).<\/p>\n<p>This friendly match provides the Moroccan staff with valuable insights as preparations continue. The objective is clear: to be ready for a home-hosted AFCON and to try to secure one of the qualifying spots for the 2027 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations 2026 approaches, set to take place in Morocco from March 17 to April 3, the national women&#8217;s team faced South Africa on Tuesday, December 2, as part of their preparation. For the third consecutive time, Morocco will host the continental tournament, which will also serve as a qualifier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-womens-team","8":"category-non-classifiee"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333081,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333075\/revisions\/333081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}