{"id":11104,"date":"2012-06-05T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T08:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/soccer-safrica-fire-coach-after-slow-campaign-start\/"},"modified":"2012-06-05T10:50:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T08:50:33","slug":"soccer-safrica-fire-coach-after-slow-campaign-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-safrica-fire-coach-after-slow-campaign-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-SAfrica fire coach after slow campaign start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 5 &#8211; South Africa fired national soccer<br \/>\ncoach Pitso Mosimane on Tuesday in reaction to their<br \/>\ndisappointing start to the World Cup qualifiers at the weekend,<br \/>\na statement from the country&#8217;s football association said.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mosimane is the first victim of Africa&#8217;s qualifying campaign<br \/>\nfor the finals in Brazil after his side were held to a 1-1 draw<br \/>\nat home by Ethiopia, 71 places below them in the FIFA rankings,<br \/>\nin their opening Group A qualifier on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He will be replaced by assistant Steve Komphela for<br \/>\nSaturday&#8217;s second qualifier away at neighbours Botswana.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa, celebrating 20 years back in the international<br \/>\nfootball fold next month, have employed 15 coaches in that time.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Mark Gleeson; Editing by Ossian Shine)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 5 &#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, a statement from the country&#8217;s football association said. Mosimane is the first victim of Africa&#8217;s qualifying campaign for the finals in Brazil after his side were held [&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-11104","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\/11104","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=11104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}