{"id":42951,"date":"2026-08-18T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42951"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:23:04","slug":"cameroon-womens-team-return-home-in-triumph","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/cameroon-womens-team-return-home-in-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon women\u2019s team return home in triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Cameroon&#8217;s women&#8217;s soccer team have made a triumphant return to their home country.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\n<p>The Indomitable Lions beat Malawi 3-nil in the final of the Women&#8217;s African Cup (Wafcon) of Nations in Rabat, Morocco at the weekend.Cameroon, who lost in three previous finals, finally lifted the trophy in Rabat on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">They received a hero&#8217;s welcome when they returned home, one day after their historic victory.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Thousands of fans lined the streets of Yaounde to celebrate with their team.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Apart from winning the continental tournament, supporters were also happy about the team&#8217;s qualification for next year&#8217;s Women&#8217;s World Cup in Brazil.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Cameroon, Malawi, Algeria and Morocco automatically qualified for the 2027 FIFA event reaching the Wafcon semi-finals.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42952,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-42951","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Cameroon's women's soccer team have made a triumphant return","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42951","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\/42951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42955,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42951\/revisions\/42955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}