{"id":11102,"date":"2012-06-05T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T08:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-1-soccer-s-africa-fire-coach-after-slow-campaign-start\/"},"modified":"2012-06-05T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T08:50:31","slug":"update-1-soccer-s-africa-fire-coach-after-slow-campaign-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-soccer-s-africa-fire-coach-after-slow-campaign-start\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Soccer-S.Africa fire coach after slow campaign start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds details)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mosimane sent packing after Ethiopia draw<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* To be replaced by assistant<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa fired national<br \/>\nsoccer coach Pitso Mosimane on Tuesday in reaction to their<br \/>\ndisappointing start to the World Cup qualifiers at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mosimane is the first victim of Africa&#8217;s qualifying campaign<br \/>\nfor the 2014 finals in Brazil after his side were held to a 1-1<br \/>\ndraw at home by Ethiopia, 71 places below them in the FIFA<br \/>\nrankings, in their opening Group A qualifier on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The announcement by South Africa&#8217;s soccer governing body in<br \/>\na statement on Tuesday came after a meeting with officials that<br \/>\nwent on late into Monday night.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mosimane had stated before the Ethiopia match that it was a<br \/>\n&#8220;must win&#8221; affair for his team.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old coach had been a beleaguered figure since<br \/>\nhis horror error last year when he botched the calculations for<br \/>\nhis side to qualify for the 2012 African Nations Cup finals.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa were comfortably placed going into their last<br \/>\ngroup game at home but played for a draw and what they presumed<br \/>\nwas top place by virtue of goal difference.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds details) * Mosimane sent packing after Ethiopia draw * To be replaced by assistant JOHANNESBURG, June 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa fired national soccer coach Pitso Mosimane on Tuesday in reaction to their disappointing start to the World Cup qualifiers at the weekend. Mosimane is the first victim of Africa&#8217;s qualifying campaign for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}