{"id":14104,"date":"2025-10-29T14:54:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/captain-refiloe-jane-proud-as-banyana-banyana-clinch-wafcon-qualification\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:45","slug":"captain-refiloe-jane-proud-as-banyana-banyana-clinch-wafcon-qualification","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/captain-refiloe-jane-proud-as-banyana-banyana-clinch-wafcon-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Refiloe Jane proud as Banyana Banyana clinch WAFCON qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Captain Refiloe Jane expressed her pride after leading South Africa\u2019s Banyana Banyana to qualification for the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON).<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The reigning African champions edged the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 1-0 in the second leg at Dobsonville Stadium, winning 2-1 on aggregate.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Jane said the team showed great determination to achieve their main goal despite facing strong opposition. \u201cIt was a difficult game to play against DRC, even in the first leg it was tough. We could have won the game in the first half but missed the chances we created, something we need to work on. In the end, we\u2019re happy we got the goal and qualified for WAFCON,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">She added that maintaining composure and focus throughout both legs was key to ensuring Banyana stayed on course for continental success.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14105,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14104","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Jane said the team showed great determination to achieve their main goal despite facing strong opposition.","published_date":null,"news_description":"  Jane said the team showed great determination to achieve their main goal despite facing strong opposition.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18917,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14104\/revisions\/18917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}