{"id":34934,"date":"2026-05-20T11:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34934"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:06:06","slug":"angola-names-four-fighters-for-african-taekwondo-championships-in-mali","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/angola-names-four-fighters-for-african-taekwondo-championships-in-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola names four fighters for African Taekwondo Championships in Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angola has called up four fighters from Benfica de Lubango to join the national taekwondo team for the Senior African Championships scheduled for May 30 to June 2 in Bamako, Mali.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The selected athletes are Matias Saprinho in the -87kg category, Elbo Vianja (-80kg), T\u00e2nia Bey (-46kg) and Luciano Gabriel (-74kg).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Technical Manager Estanislau Mateus said the team is aiming to secure valuable continental ranking points while representing Angola strongly at the championship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34936,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-34934","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Angola has called up four fighters from Benfica de Lubango to join the national taekwondo team","published_date":"2026-05-20 11:03:17","news_description":"Angola has called up four fighters from Benfica de Lubango to join the national taekwondo team","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34934","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\/34934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34937,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34934\/revisions\/34937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}