{"id":39385,"date":"2026-07-12T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39385"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:03:51","slug":"sas-jayden-adams-remembered-with-moving-world-cup-tribute","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-jayden-adams-remembered-with-moving-world-cup-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Jayden Adams remembered with moving World Cup tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">A minute silence was observed before the kickoff of the FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between England and Norway in Miami <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">on Saturday night<\/span><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">, with a picture of South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Bafana Bafana and Mamelodi Sundowns football star, Jayden Adams projected on the big screen inside the stadium.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This happens as the entire football world is in mourning and is paying tribute following the untimely death of Adams. The 25-year-old was found dead in his Cape Town home <span dir=\"ltr\">on Saturday morning<\/span> and police have registered an inquest.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>FIFA President Gianni Infantino says Adams\u2019 passing just days after featuring in his country\u2019s historic World Cup campaign, is a sad loss to the global football community.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Canadian Football Association, the Confederation of African Football and Egyptian club Al Ahly were among those who also paid tribute.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39387,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,20],"class_list":["post-39385","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"This happens as the entire football world is in mourning and is paying tribute following the untimely death of Adams.","published_date":"","news_description":"This happens as the entire football world is in mourning and is paying tribute following the untimely death of Adams.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39385","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\/39385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39386,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39385\/revisions\/39386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}