{"id":21483,"date":"2025-12-22T07:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/bafana-bafana-coach-dismisses-notion-that-sa-is-amongst-favourites-to-win-afcon\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:31","slug":"bafana-bafana-coach-dismisses-notion-that-sa-is-amongst-favourites-to-win-afcon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/bafana-bafana-coach-dismisses-notion-that-sa-is-amongst-favourites-to-win-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafana Bafana coach\u00a0dismisses notion that SA is amongst favourites\u00a0to win AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The South African (SA) national soccer team, coach Hugo Broos has dismissed the notion that SA is amongst the favourites to win 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament in Morocco.<\/div>\n<div>\nBroos\u00a0says the hosts, and the usual suspects from West Africa, are contenders to win the title this year.<\/div>\n<div>\nBafana\u00a0Bafana&#8217;s\u00a0first goal is to start the tournament with a win when they take on Angola in Marrakesh this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The moment of truth has arrived for Broos\u00a0and his boys. This year&#8217;s AFCON tournament is an opportunity to prove that winning the bronze medal in the Ivory Coast last year, was no fluke.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\nTheir campaign starts with a Group B match against the tricky Angola on Monday evening, a match\u00a0Bafana\u00a0have targeted as a must win.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\nBut the coach is under no illusions, saying this year&#8217;s tournament will be tougher than the previous edition in Ivory Coast.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21484,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-21483","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA national soccer team","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21483","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\/21483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25134,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21483\/revisions\/25134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}