{"id":50626,"date":"2026-11-11T10:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50626"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:46:51","slug":"desiree-ellis-names-sa-squad-for-fifa-womens-world-cup-play-offs","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/desiree-ellis-names-sa-squad-for-fifa-womens-world-cup-play-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"Desiree Ellis names SA squad for FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup play-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) national women&#8217;s soccer team Coach Desiree Ellis has announced a strong Banyana Banyana squad for the International Association Football Federation (FIFA) Women&#8217;s World Cup Inter-continental play-offs that kick off later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>She is counting on the experienced players in her team to see them through to the next phase of the play-offs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Wendy Shongwe who played in the World Cup in Australia, has returned to the team and is the only player that was not in the Women&#8217;s African Cup of Nations<\/p>\n<div>(WAFCON) squad in July and August.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Banyana Banyana failed to qualify outright for next year&#8217;s tournament in Brazil when they participated in this year&#8217;s WAFCON in Morocco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The team is scheduled to play Chinese Taipei on the November 28 before facing Ecuador on the December 1 and Uzbekistan on December 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44159,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-50626","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ellis has announced a strong Banyana Banyana squad","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50626","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50628,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50626\/revisions\/50628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}