{"id":1924801,"date":"2026-07-26T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1924801"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:43:56","slug":"payne-ndaw-set-for-2026-caf-africa-cup-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1924801","title":{"rendered":"Payne, Ndaw Set for 2026 CAF Africa Cup of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Toni Payne, Dieynaba Ndaw\" src=\"https:\/\/admin.goduke.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/7\/26\/ws-payne-ndaw16x9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Duke women&#8217;s soccer alumnae Toni Payne and Dieynaba Ndaw are set to open the 2026 Conf&eacute;d&eacute;ration Africaine de Football (CAF)\u00a0Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.\u00a0 A total of 16 participating nations will compete from July 26 through Aug. 16 in venues across host cities, including Rabat and Casablanca.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/news\/2026\/7\/26\/womens-soccer-payne-ndaw-set-for-2026-cafcon-africa-cup-of-nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke women&#8217;s soccer alumnae Toni Payne and Dieynaba Ndaw are set to open the 2026 Conf&eacute;d&eacute;ration Africaine de Football (CAF)\u00a0Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1924802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","wpcat-82-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924803,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924801\/revisions\/1924803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}