{"id":12002,"date":"2012-07-01T00:05:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/soccer-igesund-named-new-south-africa-coach\/"},"modified":"2012-07-01T00:05:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:05:59","slug":"soccer-igesund-named-new-south-africa-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-igesund-named-new-south-africa-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Igesund named new South Africa coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 30<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa have named<br \/>\nGordon Igesund as their new national team coach, six months<br \/>\nbefore the country hosts the 2013 African Nations Cup finals.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Igesund, the 17th coach in 20 years for South Africa,<br \/>\nreplaces Pitso Mosimane, who was sacked this month after a poor<br \/>\nstart to the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He has been offered a two-year contract after a meeting with<br \/>\nofficials in Johannesburg on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old Igesund has been the most successful coach<br \/>\nin South African league football over the past 15 years, winning<br \/>\nfour league titles with four different clubs. He almost won a<br \/>\nfifth in May with another club, Moroka Swallows, but they<br \/>\nfinished runners-up.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Igesund has been coaching in South Africa since 1986, and<br \/>\nbefore that had a successful playing career as a striker in the<br \/>\nSouth African league and a spell in the Austrian league.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He will take charge of South Africa for the first time in a<br \/>\nfriendly against Brazil in Sao Paulo on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Writing by Mark Gleeson; editing by Stephen Wood)<\/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 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa have named Gordon Igesund as their new national team coach, six months before the country hosts the 2013 African Nations Cup finals. Igesund, the 17th coach in 20 years for South Africa, replaces Pitso Mosimane, who was sacked this month after a poor start to the 2014 World [&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-12002","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\/12002","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=12002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}