{"id":172022,"date":"2015-12-05T10:09:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T10:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=172022"},"modified":"2015-12-05T10:09:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T10:09:41","slug":"south-africa-through-to-u23-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=172022","title":{"rendered":"South Africa through to U23 semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"headline\">\n<p class=\"story-header\">South Africa beat Tunisia 1-0 in the final game of Group A in M&#8217;bour to advance to the Africa Under-23 Cup of Nations semi-finals and keep their Olympic hopes alive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>South Africa needed at least a draw to progress, but the result ends Tunisia&#8217;s hopes of advancing.<\/p>\n<p>Menzi Masuka scored the all-important goal in the 85th minute to secure South Africa&#8217;s place in the last four.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa finished second in the group on six points.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts Senegal finished top of Group A with a third consecutive win, beating Zambia 1-0 in Dakar.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamadou Diallo scored for Senegal in the third minute to inflict a third straight defeat on Zambia who are eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal and South Africa will both now have to wait until Saturday to see who they will play in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal will play the second placed team in Group B, whilst South Africa will face the Group B winners.<\/p>\n<p>Both semi-finals will be played on Wednesday 9 December.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament also serves as a qualifying competition for next year&#8217;s Olympic Games with the top three finishers booking a place in Rio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa beat Tunisia 1-0 in the final game of Group A in M&#8217;bour to advance to the Africa Under-23 Cup of Nations semi-finals and keep their Olympic hopes alive. South Africa needed at least a draw to progress, but the result ends Tunisia&#8217;s hopes of advancing. Menzi Masuka scored the all-important goal in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":172024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-172022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}