{"id":27886,"date":"2025-01-28T06:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T04:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=27886"},"modified":"2025-01-28T06:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T04:38:19","slug":"bafana-in-tough-afcon-2025-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2025\/01\/28\/bafana-in-tough-afcon-2025-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafana in tough AFCON 2025 group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27887\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bafana-draw-770x504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bafana-draw-770x504.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bafana-draw-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bafana-draw.jpg 814w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bafana Bafana have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2025\/01\/27\/williams-upbeat-ahead-of-afcon-draw\/\">drawn in Group B of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations<\/a> (AFCON) alongside seven-time champions Egypt, neighbours Zimbabwe, as well as Angola.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Can December come already?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TotalEnergiesAFCON2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TotalEnergiesAFCON2025<\/a> groups look like after the Final Draw! \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QYQsAIu1e4\">pic.twitter.com\/QYQsAIu1e4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CAF_Online (@CAF_Online) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAF_Online\/status\/1883962863397790091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The draw took place last night in the host nation&#8217;s (Morocco) capital, Rabat, with SAFA President, Danny Jordaan, Bafana assistant coach Helman Mkhalele, and team manager Vincent Tsheka in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2024\/11\/19\/bafana-finish-afcon-qualifiers-on-high\/\">AFCON bronze medalists qualified<\/a> for the 2025 tournament after finishing Group K undefeated and perched at the summit last year, with many observers insisting that they have become one of the toughest and most difficult teams to play against on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Bafana Bafana will resume their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers at home to Lesotho and away to Benin in March. <strong>Written by Ntsako Mkhari<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bafana Bafana have been drawn in Group B of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) alongside seven-time champions Egypt, neighbours Zimbabwe, as well as Angola. Can December come already? Here&#8217;s what the #TotalEnergiesAFCON2025 groups look like after the Final Draw! \ud83d\ude4c pic.twitter.com\/QYQsAIu1e4 \u2014 CAF_Online (@CAF_Online) January 27, 2025 The ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bafana-draw.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27888,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886\/revisions\/27888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}