{"id":134890,"date":"2025-09-04T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=134890"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:17:35","slug":"bafana-bafana-coach-hugo-broos-names-final-squad-for-fifa-world-cup-2026-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=134890","title":{"rendered":"Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos names final squad for FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4U8cuz0Ktvo?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has named his final squad of 23 players for crucial FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers against Lesotho and Nigeria in Bloemfontein early September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Broos says winning is non-negotiable as he is determined to qualify for the World Cup, to be co-hosted by the USA, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Broos also needs a points cushion to weather a potential sanction by FIFA after Nigeria complained about the selection of Teboho Mokoena in Bafana&#8217;s win over Lesotho in March.<\/p>\n<p>For more news, visit sabcnews.com and #SABCNews on all Social Media platforms.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4U8cuz0Ktvo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has named his final squad of 23 players for crucial FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers against Lesotho and Nigeria in Bloemfontein early September 2025. Broos&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":134891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}