{"id":297,"date":"2025-07-25T14:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/?p=297"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:48:22","slug":"ntseki-announces-his-sa-squad-for-the-african-nations-championship-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/ntseki-announces-his-sa-squad-for-the-african-nations-championship-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Ntseki announces his SA squad for the African Nations Championship next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Molefi Ntseki (pictured) will lead the South African men\u2019s national team that will represent the country in the African Nations Championship (CHAN) next month.<\/p>\n<p>The CHAN tournament will be held in East Africa in three countries \u2013 Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda \u2013 between 2-30 August, 2025 and the South African Football Association (SAFA) has confirmed that Ntseki will be at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>Ntseki also announced the squad that will represent the country next month and he said he was looking forward to leading the team in the continental event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just want to take this opportunity to thank the SAFA Technical Committee for giving us the opportunity to lead this team in the Chan tournament. We have assembled a team that will represent South Africa in the CHAN tournament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in Group C and the team that we have selected is mostly composed of the players we started this journey with. So we are looking forward to the tournament and to do our best. We just want to say thanks to the clubs and to the coaches who managed to release players for our CHAN team to have a good squad going into the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-39779\" class=\"post-content container\">\n<p>SAFA Technical Committee Chairman Jack Maluleke said coach Ntseki has been afforded the opportunity to finish what he started after qualifying the team earlier this year. \u201cHe got us to this stage of the journey and it is only right that he completes the job in the CHAN tournament itself,\u201d he said. The South Africans beat Egypt and Malawi in the previous rounds to qualify for the event.<\/p>\n<p>The team will assemble in Johannesburg on Friday, 25 July 2025 where they will be based in camp until departure to Uganda on Sunday, 3 August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will kick-off on Saturday, 02 August 2025 in Dar es Salaam is match between co-host Tanzania and Burkina Faso at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The South Africans have been drawn in Group C against Uganda, Niger, Guinea and Algeria. Ntseki\u2019s charges play their opening match of the tournament against Algeria on Friday, 8 August 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-footer container\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Molefi Ntseki (pictured) will lead the South African men\u2019s national team that will represent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}