{"id":32191,"date":"2024-05-15T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/2026-wcq-south-africa-coach-unveils-preliminary-squad-for-super-eagles-clash\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:00:43","slug":"2026-wcq-south-africa-coach-unveils-preliminary-squad-for-super-eagles-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/2026-wcq-south-africa-coach-unveils-preliminary-squad-for-super-eagles-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WCQ: South Africa coach unveils preliminary squad for Super Eagles clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bafana Bafana of South Africa head coach, Hugo Broos has named a 36-man preliminary squad for his side\u2019s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying fixture Nigeria and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Broos\u2019 side will face the Super Eagles at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, on Friday, June 7.<\/p>\n<p>The former African champions will then host neighbours Zimbabwe at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian is expected to prune down the list to 23 in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Bafana Bafana are second in Group C with three points from two games.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles occupy third position with two points from same number of matches.<\/p>\n<p>2026 WCQ: South Africa coach unveils preliminary squad for Super Eagles clash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bafana Bafana of South Africa head coach, Hugo Broos has named a 36-man preliminary squad for his side\u2019s 2026 FIFA&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4276,15,6767,160,869],"tags":[1026,140,873,180,1734,201,870,1025],"class_list":["post-32191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-wcq","category-news","category-south-africa","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-1026","tag-africa","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-south","tag-sport","tag-super","tag-wcq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191","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=32191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}