{"id":6568,"date":"2012-01-01T13:07:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T11:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/soccer-swaziland-withdraw-from-2013-nations-cup-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2012-01-01T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T11:07:02","slug":"soccer-swaziland-withdraw-from-2013-nations-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-swaziland-withdraw-from-2013-nations-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Swaziland withdraw from 2013 Nations Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Jan 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Swaziland have withdrawn from the 2013<br \/>\nAfrican Nations Cup, just a week before the side were due to<br \/>\nplay the first leg of a preliminary round match, the country&#8217;s<br \/>\nfootball association has confirmed.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Swaziland were scheduled to meet the Seychelles in a first<br \/>\nround tie on Jan. 6 and 20 but pulled out because of financial<br \/>\nconstraints, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The late withdrawal is likely to lead to a fine from the<br \/>\nConfederation of African Football (CAF) and the possibility of<br \/>\nbeing banned from the 2015 tournament.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The qualifying competition for next year&#8217;s Nations Cup in<br \/>\nSouth Africa starts less than two weeks before the 2012 finals,<br \/>\nwhich are being played in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon from Jan.<br \/>\n21-Feb. 14.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From next year, the biennial tournament will shift from even<br \/>\nto odd years to avoid clashing with the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Mark Gleeson in Knysna, South Africa; Editing<br \/>\nby John O&#8217;Brien; To comment on this story email<br \/>\nsportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more African soccer click on<\/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>Jan 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Swaziland have withdrawn from the 2013 African Nations Cup, just a week before the side were due to play the first leg of a preliminary round match, the country&#8217;s football association has confirmed. Swaziland were scheduled to meet the Seychelles in a first round tie on Jan. 6 and 20 but [&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-6568","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\/6568","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=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}