{"id":73945,"date":"2025-08-22T22:54:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73945"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:54:40","slug":"broos-names-squad-for-super-eagles-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/22\/broos-names-squad-for-super-eagles-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Broos Names Squad for Super Eagles World Cup Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos has released his preliminary squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The South Africans will host Lesotho on September 5 before taking on the Super Eagles on September 9 in a decisive Group C encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Rowen Williams, Al Ahly forward Percy Tau, and Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Teboho Mokoena headline the list of regulars.<\/p>\n<p>New faces include Siyabonga Ngezana, Relebohile Mofokeng, and returning striker Lyle Foster.<\/p>\n<p>Broos initially named a 36-man provisional list before trimming it down for the fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Bafana Bafana currently lead Group C with 13 points from six matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos has released his preliminary squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles. The South Africans will host Lesotho on September 5 before taking on the Super Eagles on September 9 in a decisive Group C encounter. Captain Rowen Williams, Al [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73946,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73945\/revisions\/73946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}