{"id":19480,"date":"2022-08-31T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney"},"modified":"2022-08-31T15:29:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:29:18","slug":"maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney","title":{"rendered":"Maloro in buoyant mood ahead of Cosafa tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Lesotho women\u2019s national team striker Lit\u0161eoane Maloro is confident of a good showing at the upcoming COSAFA Women\u2019s Championship set for Gqeberha, South Africa, from August 31 to September 11.<\/p>\n<p>Mehalalitoe, as the Lesotho women\u2019s team is affectionately known, will start their campaign next week Thursday against Eswatini in Group B, which also has Zambia and Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Maloro believes Zambia\u2019s Copper Queens, who finished third at the recent Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, will be the team to beat in their group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a very fair group when I compare it with the previous tournaments and Zambia, for me, will be the biggest challenge for us in our pool,\u201d Maloro said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have always had the upper hand in our previous encounters, but with Eswatini and Namibia, it was the opposite and I have no doubt that we will give them a run for their money.<br \/>\nThe 26-year-old former Bloemfontein Celtic striker will be expected to play a key role for Lesotho alongside Mosili Mot\u0161oeneng and Boitumelo Rabele who ply their trade in South Africa for Royal AM and Mamelodi Sundowns respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that we have had very good preparations which started well on time and will play a very important role in us performing well at the tournament,\u201d the forward said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ball is now in our court as players to implement all that we have learnt in the field of play because we want to make our country proud at the tournament,\u201d Maloro said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Lesotho women\u2019s national team striker Lit\u0161eoane Maloro is confident of a good showing at the upcoming COSAFA Women\u2019s Championship set for Gqeberha, South Africa, from August 31 to September 11. Mehalalitoe, as the Lesotho women\u2019s team is affectionately known, will start their campaign next week Thursday against Eswatini in Group B, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":19479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[233,246,245],"class_list":["post-19480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maloro in buoyant mood ahead of Cosafa tourney - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lesotho women\u2019s national team striker Lit\u0161eoane Maloro is confident of a good showing at the upcoming COSAFA Women\u2019s Cha ...\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maloro in buoyant mood ahead of Cosafa tourney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lesotho women\u2019s national team striker Lit\u0161eoane Maloro is confident of a good showing at the upcoming COSAFA Women\u2019s Cha ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-31T14:50:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-31T15:29:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_16-630f7e2f8008c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Maloro in buoyant mood ahead of Cosafa tourney\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-31T14:50:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-31T15:29:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney\"},\"wordCount\":277,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_16-630f7e2f8008c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/maloro-in-buoyant-mood-ahead-of-cosafa-tourney\",\"name\":\"Maloro in buoyant mood ahead of Cosafa tourney - 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