{"id":1414,"date":"2020-11-23T18:46:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T19:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2020-11-23T23:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:21:15","slug":"south-africa-fifa-world-cup-star-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"South Africa FIFA World Cup star dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anele Ngcongca, a former South Africa defender who played for the host team at the 2010 World Cup, died in a car crash early Monday. He was 33.<\/p>\n<p>The South African government said Ngcongca died in the crash in the Kwazulu-Natal province. South African media reports said he was a passenger in the car and the driver, a woman, was in the hospital in critical condition. She was not identified.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Baroka_FC\/status\/1330951229959262211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Baroka_FC\/status\/1330951229959262211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kzngov\/status\/1330939356324966405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/kzngov\/status\/1330939356324966405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuintonFortune\/status\/1330932652199858177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuintonFortune\/status\/1330932652199858177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ngcongca played for South Africa from 2009-16. He made 53 appearances for Bafana Bafana and was a member of the team when South Africa hosted the 2010 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ngcongca&#x27;s current club, Mamelodi Sundowns, offered condolences to his family and friends. He also played for Belgian club Genk for nearly a decade from 2007-16, winning a league title and the Belgian Cup twice.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"c0cfc260-aec9-4fd8-84c8-62bf13985d08\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c0cfc260-aec9-4fd8-84c8-62bf13985d08\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ngcongca was on loan at Kwazulu-Natal-based club AmaZulu at the time of his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Anele Ngcongca, a former South Africa defender who played for the host team at the 2010 World Cup, died in a car crash early Monday. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=1414\" title=\"South Africa FIFA World Cup star dies\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}