{"id":20387,"date":"2025-12-03T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/angola-to-play-two-friendlies-ahead-of-afcon-opener-against-sa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:42","slug":"angola-to-play-two-friendlies-ahead-of-afcon-opener-against-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/angola-to-play-two-friendlies-ahead-of-afcon-opener-against-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola to play two friendlies ahead of AFCON opener against SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angola, who will face South Africa (SA) in their opening match at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals in Morocco later this month, will play two warm-up internationals ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Palancas Negras are travelling to Portugal for a 10-day preparation camp from December8 to 18, where they will take on Democratic Republic of Congo on December 13 and Mozambique three days later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Angolan Football Federation said coach Patrice Beaumelle is expected to announce his 28-man squad in the coming days, though no specific date has been provided.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Angola\u2019s AFCON campaign begins in Marrakesh against SA on December 21, followed by a clash with Zimbabwe on December 26 and a Group B match against Egypt in Agadir three days later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the last AFCON finals in Ivory Coast, Angola reached the quarterfinals, a performance they will hope to improve on in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20388,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-20387","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Angola, who will face South Africa (SA) in their opening match at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final","published_date":"2025-12-03 11:35:09","news_description":"Angola, who will face South Africa (SA) in their opening match at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20387","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\/20387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24444,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20387\/revisions\/24444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}