{"id":54431,"date":"2026-06-12T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bafana-bafana-trolled-by-african-fans-in-wake-of-defeat-by-mexico\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:41:39","slug":"bafana-bafana-trolled-by-african-fans-in-wake-of-defeat-by-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bafana-bafana-trolled-by-african-fans-in-wake-of-defeat-by-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafana Bafana trolled by African fans in wake of defeat by Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">In a statement, the South African government commended Bafana Bafana for their &#8220;spirited performance&#8221;, adding that while the final score was not what the nation had hoped for, the team &#8220;represented South Africa with unity, determination, and a sense of pride on the world&#8217;s biggest stage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm2jewrxvmjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement, the South African government commended Bafana Bafana for their &#8220;spirited performance&#8221;, adding that while the final score was not what the nation had hoped for, the team &#8220;represented South Africa with unity, determination, and a sense of pride on the world&#8217;s biggest stage&#8221;. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54433,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54431\/revisions\/54433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}