{"id":21265,"date":"2025-12-18T06:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/bafana-bafana-hope-to-go-all-the-way-at-afcon-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:23","slug":"bafana-bafana-hope-to-go-all-the-way-at-afcon-2025","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/bafana-bafana-hope-to-go-all-the-way-at-afcon-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafana Bafana hope to go all the way at AFCON 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Bafana Bafana left their training base at the High Performance Centre in Pretoria to travel to OR Tambo International Airport.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 2024 bronze medalists are on their way to Morocco for this year\u2019s edition of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament, where they hope to improve on their performance achieved in Ivory Coast last year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Chief Medical Officer for the South African Football Association, Thulani Ngwenya says it\u2019s all systems go for Bafana Bafana.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe have seen that the coach has done exceptionally well since he took over. You can\u2019t talk about the final without looking at Angola, our first opponent is Angola, so we are ready and everyone is ready. We believe that we are actually going to go all the way, that is what we want to do.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bafana Bafana winger, Mohau Nkota says that they are excited and looking forward to the tournament.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16444,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,20],"class_list":["post-21265","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Bafana Bafana winger, Mohau Nkota says that they are excited and looking forward to the tournament.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Bafana Bafana winger, Mohau Nkota says that they are excited and looking forward to the tournament.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21265","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\/21265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25002,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21265\/revisions\/25002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}