{"id":20322,"date":"2025-12-02T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/bafana-coach-hugo-broos-names-squad-for-afcon-tournament\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:39","slug":"bafana-coach-hugo-broos-names-squad-for-afcon-tournament","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/bafana-coach-hugo-broos-names-squad-for-afcon-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafana Coach Hugo Broos names squad for AFCON tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>With one eye on the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament and another on the future, Bafana Bafana Coach Hugo Broos named his 25-player squad for the continental tournament in Morocco later this month.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The squad is a blend of youth and experience.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Two of the brightest young emerging stars, Queens Park Rangers\u2019 Tylon Smith, and Shandre Campbell, who plays for Club Brugge in Belgium, have both been included.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They are both 20 years old, and Smith captained Amajita to their first Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations title earlier this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The biggest surprise was the omission of Mamelodi Sundowns\u2019 goal-scoring machine, Iqraam Rayners, and the injury-plagued veteran, Themba Zwane.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The tournament starts on December 21.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14530,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-20322","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The squad is a blend of youth and experience. \u00a0","published_date":null,"news_description":"The squad is a blend of youth and experience. \u00a0","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20322","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\/20322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24400,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20322\/revisions\/24400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}