{"id":914924,"date":"2026-06-23T15:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/champions-league-success-can-salvage-mamelodi-sundowns-underwhelming-season\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:17:11","slug":"champions-league-success-can-salvage-mamelodi-sundowns-underwhelming-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/champions-league-success-can-salvage-mamelodi-sundowns-underwhelming-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League success can salvage Mamelodi Sundowns\u2019 underwhelming season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mamelodi Sundowns are into the Champions League final for the second successive season. A year ago, their final foray ended in heartbreak. In the 2026 decider against Morocco\u2019s AS FAR, the Brazilians can erase that pain and plaster over what has been a disappointing domestic campaign by their extremely high standards&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2026-05-15-champions-league-success-can-salvage-mamelodi-sundowns-underwhelming-season\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Yuri Coby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamelodi Sundowns are into the Champions League final for the second successive season. A year ago, their final foray ended in heartbreak. In the 2026 decider against Morocco\u2019s AS FAR, the Brazilians can erase that pain and plaster over what has been a disappointing domestic campaign by their extremely high standards&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":914925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1532,4702,192],"tags":[13465,7607],"class_list":["post-914924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-champions","category-league","category-sports","tag-champions","tag-league"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}