{"id":14236,"date":"2025-10-31T07:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-amajimbos-depart-for-fifa-u17-world-cup-in-qatar\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:52","slug":"sas-amajimbos-depart-for-fifa-u17-world-cup-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-amajimbos-depart-for-fifa-u17-world-cup-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s Amajimbos depart for FIFA U17 World Cup in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite limited preparations and leaving just four days before their opening match against Bolivia, Amajimbos head coach Vela Khumalo is confident in the quality of his squad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The South African (SA) U17 national team departed for Qatar last night, marking the country\u2019s third appearance in this age category at the men\u2019s FIFA World Cup. Preparations have been constrained, largely due to funding challenges, but Khumalo believes the players\u2019 talent will shine on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited that we are on our way to Qatar, and we want to thank the association for helping us through,\u201d Khumalo said. \u201cHopefully, we will make the country very proud. It was very important for us to take these young ones and expose them to the World Cup stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Amajimbos face Bolivia in their first group match, with expectations high for the young squad to gain valuable experience on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13163,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14236","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The South African (SA) U17 national team departed for Qatar last night","published_date":"2025-10-31 09:31:13","news_description":"The South African (SA) U17 national team departed for Qatar last night","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14236","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\/14236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18988,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14236\/revisions\/18988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}