{"id":143539,"date":"2026-02-24T06:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143539\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:18:24","slug":"zambia-copper-queens-to-face-canada-n-fifa-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143539\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Copper Queens to face Canada n FIFA Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/638817822_1465787498538406_7822196075982766063_n-1024x700.jpg\"\/><img width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/638817822_1465787498538406_7822196075982766063_n-1024x700.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>            <\/p>\n<p>The Zambia Women National Football Team will kick off its FIFA Series campaign on April 11, against Canada at the Arena Pantanal in Cuiab\u00e1, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>According to the fixtures released by FIFA, the Copper Queens will then face hosts Brazil on April 14 before winding down their South American expedition four days later against Korea Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 FIFA Series is an invitational tournament promoted by FIFA that features friendly matches between teams from different continental confederations.<\/p>\n<p>Zambia will be among 12 female national teams picked across the globe for the 2026 edition, which will feature three different four-team series, taking place across three host countries, during the FIFA window of 13\u201324 April.<\/p>\n<p>The host countries are Brazil, Coted\u2019Ivoire and Thailand with Zambia placed in the same group with Brazil, Canada and Korea Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Coted\u2019Ivoire will play host to Pakistan, Mauritania and Turks and Caicos Islands (TCA) while Thailand will have Congo DR, Nepal and OFC Team.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s will feature nine different four-team series taking place across eight host countries during the FIFA window of 23\u201331 March. Zambia is not among the teams participating in the men\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Zambia Women National Football Team will kick off its FIFA Series campaign on April 11, against Canada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-143539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}