{"id":353086,"date":"2026-07-29T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/353086\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:56:09","slug":"trending-banyana-banyanas-shock-wafcon-defeat-to-tanzania-sparks-concern-over-team-selection-and-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/353086\/","title":{"rendered":"Trending: Banyana Banyana&#8217;s shock WAFCON defeat to Tanzania sparks concern over team selection and coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s trending on X<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Banyana Bayana\u2019s loss to Tanzania in their opening WAFCON match has left X users wondering what went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>@pamelamodella: How did Banyana Banyana lose to Tanzania?<\/p>\n<p>@HumbleBarcaneer: The decision-making of the Banyana Banyana players?<\/p>\n<p>@kwandsssssss: Banyana Banyana are getting cooked by Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>@apho_madikane: Yeah, Banyana Banyana are doing us like Bafana Bafana\u2026 They controlled everything and didn\u2019t score, but then decided to concede.<\/p>\n<p>@mesqueun11: Yoh, guys, it\u2019s WAFCON (Women\u2019s African Cup of Nations). Get behind Banyana Banyana.<\/p>\n<p>@zalikiwoee: I can\u2019t believe this is the same Banyana Banyana team that previously won WAFCON.<\/p>\n<p>@NtateWilliams: I personally think Banyana Banyana need to move away from some of these players.<\/p>\n<p>@MWTlali: People have a problem with the PSL hosting its virtual awards during Banyana Banyana\u2019s opening WAFCON game.<\/p>\n<p>@Alex_sithole_: From what I\u2019m seeing, Banyana Banyana might not qualify for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>@GrootmanBo: BANYANA BANYANA????!!!! WHAT\u2019S HAPPENING?!<\/p>\n<p>@Banyana_Banyana: Not the start South Africa wanted as they fall 2-1 to Tanzania in the opening match of WAFCON 2026.<\/p>\n<p>@phala_jacob: The team has taken a few steps backwards. Clearly, new ideas are needed at the top, but because @SAFA_net is interested in cheap labour, they won\u2019t get a new coach because the current one is the cheaper option.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s trending on X Banyana Bayana\u2019s loss to Tanzania in their opening WAFCON match has left X users&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[55],"tags":[169795,169787,169785,169788,169790,169786,169792,169798,169794,169789,169797,169793,169796,3104,169791,33998,169784,7690,25628,35293,30848,131,152,15686,25274],"class_list":["post-353086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tanzania","tag-alex_sithole_from","tag-apho_madikaneyeah","tag-banyana_banyananot","tag-grootmanbo","tag-humblebarcaneerthe","tag-kwandsssssssbanyana-banyana","tag-mesqueun11yoh","tag-mwtlalipeople","tag-ntatewilliamsi","tag-pamelamodellahow","tag-phala_jacobthe","tag-safa_net","tag-zalikiwoeei","tag-african-cup-of-nations","tag-bafana","tag-banyana-banyana","tag-banyana-bayana","tag-daily-news","tag-headline","tag-psl","tag-root","tag-south-africa","tag-tanzania","tag-wafcon-2026","tag-x"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/117001256145611699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}