{"id":42093,"date":"2026-06-25T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/south-africa-writes-history-secures-qualification-for-the-knockout-stage-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:50:39","slug":"south-africa-writes-history-secures-qualification-for-the-knockout-stage-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/south-africa-writes-history-secures-qualification-for-the-knockout-stage-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa writes history, secures qualification for the knockout stage for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/afrika.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has secured qualification for the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time in history, after a narrow 1-0 victory over South Korea at the Estadio Monterrey.<\/p>\n<p>The hero of the match was Tshepang Moremi, who scored the only goal of the match in the second half, giving Bafana Bafana three golden points and second place in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea had their chances, but they did not. managed to find the back of the net, while goalkeeper Ronwen Williams proved decisive with his saves.<\/p>\n<p>With this historic success, South Africa advance to the top 32 stage of the tournament, where they will face Canada on Sunday for a place in the next round.\/04 Online\/<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display advertisements (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has secured qualification for the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time in history, after a narrow 1-0 victory over South Korea at the Estadio Monterrey. The hero of the match was Tshepang Moremi, who scored the only goal of the match in the second half, giving Bafana Bafana three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"views":8,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42095,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093\/revisions\/42095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}