{"id":3146,"date":"2025-02-17T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T10:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T10:26:20","slug":"south-sudan-womens-team-faces-algeria-in-african-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=3146","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan Women&#8217;s Team Faces Algeria in African Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juba\/ Alwadi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National women&#8217;s football team will host Algeria next Wednesday afternoon at Juba National Stadium in the first leg of the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two teams will meet again in Algeria for the return leg, with the winner of the two-legged tie set to face Cameroon in October in the second round. The qualifiers are played in two-legged knockout rounds, home and away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 38 teams are competing for 12 spots in the final tournament. Six teams, including defending champions South Africa, have received a bye from the first round, alongside Zambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Cameroon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Sudan\u2019s women\u2019s team (The Bright Stars) aims to put on a strong performance against Algeria and erase the lackluster image they presented in the last qualifiers. They are seeking a positive result before the return leg in Algeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth noting that Morocco will host the next edition of the Africa Women\u2019s Cup of Nations in 2026 for the third consecutive time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba\/ Alwadi The National women&#8217;s football team will host Algeria next Wednesday afternoon at Juba National Stadium in the first leg of the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}