{"id":382860,"date":"2011-04-20T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/20\/south-africa-and-mali-win-at-ayc\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T13:03:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:03:04","slug":"south-africa-and-mali-win-at-ayc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/20\/south-africa-and-mali-win-at-ayc\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa and Mali win at AYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/90c2260allegtty_raw.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"The Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto is hosting the African Youth Championship<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Hosts South Africa kept alive their hopes of reaching the African Youth Championship semi-finals with a win over Lesotho in Group A.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday Mali stayed top of the group thanks to their 1-0 win over Egypt, who stay in second place on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>The only goal of the game was scored by Mali&#8217;s Amara Konate in the 65th minute.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa took a 2-0 lead thanks to first-half goals from Letsi Koapeng and then Lucky Nguzana.<\/p>\n<p>Lesotho who pulled a goal back after 66 minutes through Litsepe Marabe.<\/p>\n<p>That result means that Lesotho cannot now advance and are bottom of the table without a point after losing both their matches.<\/p>\n<p>Amajita move to third with three points from their two games and in order to reach the last four they must win their final game on Saturday against Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptians know they only need a draw to advance.<\/p>\n<p>The other game on Saturday sees Mali out to maintain their 100% record against Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p>The top two sides from the group will qualify for the semi-finals and also earn themselves a place at the Under-20 World Cup in Colombia later this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>see also<\/p>\n<hr class=\"pufff\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related bbc links:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related internet links:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/90c2260allegtty_raw.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9463591.stm\" title=\"South Africa and Mali win at AYC\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa and Mali win at AYC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto is hosting the African Youth Championship Hosts South Africa kept alive their hopes of reaching the African Youth Championship semi-finals with a win over Lesotho in Group A. Also on Wednesday Mali stayed top of the group thanks to their 1-0 win over Egypt, who stay in second place on goal difference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Africa and Mali win at AYC - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/20\/south-africa-and-mali-win-at-ayc\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"South Africa and Mali win at AYC - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto is hosting the African Youth Championship Hosts South Africa kept alive their hopes of reaching the African Youth Championship semi-finals with a win over Lesotho in Group A. 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