{"id":16008,"date":"2024-02-08T05:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T05:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-broos-proud-of-players-despite-south-africa-defeat-to-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T05:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T05:02:35","slug":"afcon-2023-broos-proud-of-players-despite-south-africa-defeat-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-broos-proud-of-players-despite-south-africa-defeat-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: Broos proud of players despite South Africa defeat to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bafana Bafana head coach, Hugo Broos was full of praise for his players despite losing their 2023 Africa Cup of Nations semi-final 4-2 on penalties against Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The former champions put up a resolute display in the keenly contested encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Bafana Bafana forced extra-time after Teboho Mokoena cancelled out William Troost-Ekong\u2019s opener.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Super Eagles, who however prevailed in the shootout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball can be hard,\u201d Broos said after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, that can happen in football. It\u2019s a big disappointment for everyone because we feel that we played a very good game today, that we played a very good AFCON.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very, very proud of it. I\u2019m proud of my players. The disappointment is this, but the proudness is that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bafana Bafana will face Congo Democratic Republic in the third-place final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: Broos proud of players despite South Africa defeat to Nigeria<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bafana Bafana head coach, Hugo Broos was full of praise for his players despite losing their 2023 Africa Cup of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,10073,15,901,6767,160],"tags":[210,110,140,10074,180,18,1734,201],"class_list":["post-16008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","category-broos","category-news","category-nigeria","category-south-africa","category-sport","tag-210","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-broos","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}