{"id":9865,"date":"2012-04-12T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/soccer-kaizer-chiefs-fire-serbian-coach\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:10:06","slug":"soccer-kaizer-chiefs-fire-serbian-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-kaizer-chiefs-fire-serbian-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Kaizer Chiefs fire Serbian coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s most<br \/>\npopular club Kaizer Chiefs fired coach Vladimir Vermezovic on<br \/>\nThursday, just weeks before the end of his three-year contract.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former Yugoslav international and coach of Partizan<br \/>\nBelgrade had failed to deliver a league title in his first two<br \/>\nseasons and looked unlikely to achieve the feat this term with<br \/>\nhis side fourth.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was agreed to part ways with immediate effect, in order<br \/>\nto allow both parties to prepare for the new season in good<br \/>\ntime,&#8221; said a club statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Soweto-based club have the best record in South African<br \/>\nprofessional football and draw the largest crowds but last won<br \/>\nthe league in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Mark Gleeson; Editing by Mark Meadows;<br \/>\nmark.meadows@thomsonreuters.com; +44 207 542 7933; Twitter:<br \/>\n@mark_meadows; Reuters Messaging:<br \/>\nmark.meadows.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net; For<br \/>\n the sports blog Left Field: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/sport\">blogs.reuters.com\/sport<\/a>))<\/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, April 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s most popular club Kaizer Chiefs fired coach Vladimir Vermezovic on Thursday, just weeks before the end of his three-year contract. The former Yugoslav international and coach of Partizan Belgrade had failed to deliver a league title in his first two seasons and looked unlikely to achieve the feat [&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-9865","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\/9865","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=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}