{"id":72898,"date":"2017-09-27T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=72898"},"modified":"2017-09-29T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T08:46:17","slug":"72898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/sports-news\/local-sports\/2017\/09\/27\/72898\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva Nothando!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defender played her 100th match for the national team, joining the elite league of Portia Modise, Janine van Wyk, Noko Matlou, Nompumelo Myandeni and Amanda Dlamini.<\/p>\n<p>She made her debut against Ghana in 2007 and played in consecutive Olypic Games (2012 in London and 2016 in Rio de Janero), making her one of Mhluzi\u2019s favourite sport stars.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72902\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-72902 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/nthando3-Copy-1-520x400.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/nthando3-Copy-1-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/09\/nthando3-Copy-1-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nothando with the shirt celebrating her 100th game.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>South Africa are three-time winners of teh SOSAFA Championships and were in semi-final action against Zambia on Thursday. Banyana Banyana won the match 5-3 after a 3 all draw lead to a penalty shoot-out.<\/p>\n<p>They went on to claim the top spot after winning 2-1 against Zimbabwe in the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banyana Banyana&#8217;s victory against Namibia in the COSAFA Women\u2019s Championship, was a very special occasion for Mhluzi\u2019s Nothando \u201cVivo\u201d Vilakazi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":72899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Johann Gresse","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2887,11,2886],"tags":[7737,7734,7735,7738,7733,7736],"class_list":["post-72898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-sport","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-100th-game","tag-banyana-banyana","tag-cosafa-championship","tag-elite-league","tag-nothando-vilakazi","tag-winners-2017"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"General"},"tag_labels":["100th game","banyana banyana","COSAFA Championship","elite league","Nothando Vilakazi","Winners 2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}