{"id":62704,"date":"2025-10-09T21:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test"},"modified":"2025-10-09T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:59:08","slug":"lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Sets Up Base in Polokwane for Nigeria Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The Lesotho Senior National Team, Likuena have set up base in Polokwane ahead of 2026 World Cup Qualifiers against Nigeria and Zimbabwe respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Leslie Nots\u2019i\u2019s coached side is now at full strength after the arrival of South African based players such as captain Sekhoane Moerane, Thabo Makhele and Motebang Sera, who were in action in the PSL over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Likuena take on the Super Eagles in the first of the two fixtures at New Peter Mokaba Stadium on Friday 10th at 18h00 as the race to book at ticket to the global showpiece in North America goes to the wire.<\/p>\n<p>Lesotho will play their final match of Group C against the Warriors of Zimbabwe on Monday as the two Southern African countries renew their rivalry after Likuena drew first blood in the first leg encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets of the match are selling at Computicket outlets in both Lesotho and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. 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The Leslie Nots\u2019i\u2019s coached side is now at full strength after the arrival of South African based players such as captain Sekhoane Moerane, Thabo Makhele and Motebang Sera, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-62704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","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>Lesotho Sets Up Base in Polokwane for Nigeria Test - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Lesotho Senior National Team, Likuena have set up base in Polokwane ahead of 2026 World Cup Qualifiers against Niger ...\" \/>\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\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lesotho Sets Up Base in Polokwane for Nigeria Test\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Lesotho Senior National Team, Likuena have set up base in Polokwane ahead of 2026 World Cup Qualifiers against Niger ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test\" \/>\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=\"2025-10-09T21:30:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-09T21:59:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/10\/sm_1760034300.727715.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"853\" \/>\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\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Lesotho Sets Up Base in Polokwane for Nigeria Test\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-09T21:30:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-09T21:59:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test\"},\"wordCount\":174,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/10\/sm_1760034300.727715.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-sets-up-base-in-polokwane-for-nigeria-test\",\"name\":\"Lesotho Sets Up Base in Polokwane for Nigeria Test - 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