{"id":5014,"date":"2025-05-19T15:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=5014"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:39:08","slug":"for-the-first-time-south-africa-wins-the-u-20-africa-cup-of-nations-at-moroccos-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=5014","title":{"rendered":"For the First Time\u2026 South Africa Wins the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations at Morocco&#8217;s Expense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Al-Wadi: Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South African national team has been crowned champions of the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa secured the title by defeating Morocco 1\u20130 in the final match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2e2ce8b6-6aa9-41d3-9c37-c1716e3b951f2025_5_18_23_4.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2e2ce8b6-6aa9-41d3-9c37-c1716e3b951f2025_5_18_23_4.webp 800w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2e2ce8b6-6aa9-41d3-9c37-c1716e3b951f2025_5_18_23_4-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2e2ce8b6-6aa9-41d3-9c37-c1716e3b951f2025_5_18_23_4-768x511.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The final was held at the Air Defense Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks South Africa\u2019s first-ever title win in the history of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa\u2019s only goal in the match was scored by Kekana with a shot from outside the penalty area after a pass from the goalkeeper, which the defense failed to properly deal with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/360960_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/360960_0.jpg 980w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/360960_0-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/360960_0-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, the goal was disallowed for offside but was eventually awarded after a VAR review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria remains the record holder of the tournament with seven titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria had earlier claimed the bronze medal after beating Egypt in the third-place match via penalty shootout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teams that qualified for the U-20 World Cup from this tournament are South Africa, Morocco, Nigeria, and Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Wadi: Agencies The South African national team has been crowned champions of the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations. South Africa secured the title by defeating Morocco 1\u20130 in the final&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5014","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\/5014","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=5014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5018,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions\/5018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}