{"id":213919,"date":"2026-03-11T23:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213919"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:26:04","slug":"bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213919","title":{"rendered":"Bafana to host Panama in lead-up to World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; SAFA have confirmed that Bafana Bafana will face Panama in two friendly internationals in March\u2019s FIFA window. Panama are ranked number 33 in the world, a full 27 places above Bafana (60). But who are the Central American side? Panama qualified for the 2026 World Cup, going unbeaten through the preliminaries with seven<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news-top-stories\/bafana-host-panama-lead-world-cup\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; SAFA have confirmed that Bafana Bafana will face Panama in two friendly internationals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213919-bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup.webp",480,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213919-bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213919-bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup-300x200.webp",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213919-bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup.webp",480,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213919-bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup.webp",480,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213919-bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup.webp",480,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213919-bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup.webp",480,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213919-bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup.webp",480,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213919-bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup.webp",480,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213919-bafana-to-host-panama-in-lead-up-to-world-cup.webp",480,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}