{"id":178447,"date":"2024-08-13T15:32:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-warriors-hastily-assemble-for-zdf-celebrations-as-zambia-pulls-out-amid-diplomatic-tiff\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T15:32:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:32:16","slug":"zimbabwe-warriors-hastily-assemble-for-zdf-celebrations-as-zambia-pulls-out-amid-diplomatic-tiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-warriors-hastily-assemble-for-zdf-celebrations-as-zambia-pulls-out-amid-diplomatic-tiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Warriors Hastily Assemble for ZDF Celebrations As Zambia Pulls Out Amid Diplomatic Tiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">ZIMBABWE Football Association (ZIFA) has hastily assembled a squad to play Zimbabwe Defence Forces select Tuesday at Rufaro Stadium after Zambia Defence Forces withdrew as tensions between the two neighbours persist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">ZIFA announced Monday a 21 men squad made up of players from the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The team will be led by technical director Jethro Hunidzarira, standing in for newly appointed Warriors coach Michael Nees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">This follows the withdrawal of Zambia Defence Forces who had&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408130031.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>ZIMBABWE Football Association (ZIFA) has hastily assembled a squad to play Zimbabwe Defence Forces select Tuesday at Rufaro Stadium after Zambia Defence Forces withdrew as tensions between the two neighbours persist. ZIFA announced Monday a 21 men squad made up of players from the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League. The team will be led by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178448,"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":[258,256,31121,7637,10382,24501,257,10038,254,19186,10304,4709,881,16365,4686],"class_list":["post-178447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assemble","tag-celebrations","tag-diplomatic","tag-hastily","tag-news","tag-pulls","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tiff","tag-warriors","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zdf","tag-zimbabwe"],"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\/178447","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=178447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}