{"id":176473,"date":"2024-07-13T02:11:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T00:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-chipolopolo-woes-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T02:11:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T00:11:18","slug":"zambia-chipolopolo-woes-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-chipolopolo-woes-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Chipolopolo Woes &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">IT is not by mistake or coincidence that various stakeholders have continued to express their concern over the Chipolopolo&#8217;s poor performance heading into the Morocco 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. And this is why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Chipolopolo has failed to muster a single win in any competitive match spanning the FIFA 2026 World Cup qualifiers, Africa Cup of Nations finals and the COSAFA tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The team has endured six defeats in those last nine competitive matches including the last five in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The 4-2&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407120451.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT is not by mistake or coincidence that various stakeholders have continued to express their concern over the Chipolopolo&#8217;s poor performance heading into the Morocco 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. And this is why. The Chipolopolo has failed to muster a single win in any competitive match spanning the FIFA 2026 World Cup qualifiers, Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,42655,9731,257,254,9855,4709,881],"class_list":["post-176473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-chipolopolo","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-woes","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}