{"id":181857,"date":"2024-10-04T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-zambia-young-warriors-lose-to-zambia-in-cosafa-cup-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:58:09","slug":"zimbabwe-zambia-young-warriors-lose-to-zambia-in-cosafa-cup-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-zambia-young-warriors-lose-to-zambia-in-cosafa-cup-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\/Zambia: Young Warriors Lose to Zambia in Cosafa Cup Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Two second-half goals from behind were not enough to save the Young Warriors from losing to Zambia in a COSAFA Cup semi-final match played on Thursday afternoon at ABB stadium in Maputo, Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Despite playing a 2-2 draw in regulation time, Zimbabwe men&#8217;s under 20 team lost 6-5 on penalty shootouts, a result which saw team head coach Simon Marange crying during a post-match interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Zimbabwe conceded an early goal in the 7th minute after Pascal Phiri fired in a rebound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Young Chipolo Polo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410040025.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>Two second-half goals from behind were not enough to save the Young Warriors from losing to Zambia in a COSAFA Cup semi-final match played on Thursday afternoon at ABB stadium in Maputo, Mozambique. Despite playing a 2-2 draw in regulation time, Zimbabwe men&#8217;s under 20 team lost 6-5 on penalty shootouts, a result which saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181858,"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":[258,256,9360,6674,9569,257,14272,254,10304,7720,4709,881,11856],"class_list":["post-181857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cosafa","tag-cup","tag-lose","tag-news","tag-semifinal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warriors","tag-young","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zimbabwezambia"],"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\/181857","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=181857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}