{"id":34928,"date":"2026-05-20T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34928"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:35:35","slug":"sundowns-defender-cupido-reveals-he-played-through-pain-in-caf-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sundowns-defender-cupido-reveals-he-played-through-pain-in-caf-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundowns defender reveals he played through pain in CAF final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Mamelodi Sundowns defender Keanu Cupido has revealed that he played through pain during the club\u2019s Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League final first leg after recently suffering a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old is believed to have dislocated his shoulder during Sundowns\u2019 Betway Premiership clash against Kaizer Chiefs less than two weeks ago, forcing him to miss the following two matches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cupido\u2019s inclusion in the continental final against AS FAR surprised many supporters, but the defender says the injury was managed with pain treatment to allow him to feature for the team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to take an injection and anything for the badge. If the team needs me, I need to be there through pain or whatever. I\u2019m happy to be on the field,\u201d Cupido said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34929,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-34928","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Mamelodi Sundowns defender Keanu Cupido has revealed that he played through pain during the club\u2019s CAF Champions League","published_date":"2026-05-20 10:25:01","news_description":"Mamelodi Sundowns defender Keanu Cupido has revealed that he played through pain during the club\u2019s CAF Champions League","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34928","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34932,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34928\/revisions\/34932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}