{"id":188027,"date":"2025-01-06T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bulawayo-mayor-coltart-speaks-on-local-stadia-amid-failure-to-meet-international-standards\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:16:38","slug":"zimbabwe-bulawayo-mayor-coltart-speaks-on-local-stadia-amid-failure-to-meet-international-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bulawayo-mayor-coltart-speaks-on-local-stadia-amid-failure-to-meet-international-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Bulawayo Mayor Coltart Speaks On Local Stadia Amid Failure to Meet International Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">BULAWAYO Mayor David Coltart says there is urgent need to rehabilitate stadia in the country&#8217;s second largest city to be able to host international football matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The premier&#8217;s utterances come as Zimbabwe&#8217;s senior soccer side, the Warriors, are playing international home games away from home, in other African countries following a ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The ban came after fields failed to meet international standards imposed by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the Confederation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501060164.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BULAWAYO Mayor David Coltart says there is urgent need to rehabilitate stadia in the country&#8217;s second largest city to be able to host international football matches. The premier&#8217;s utterances come as Zimbabwe&#8217;s senior soccer side, the Warriors, are playing international home games away from home, in other African countries following a ban. The ban came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,3691,27979,5631,4337,7823,7625,6508,257,254,5938,33372,13841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-188027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bulawayo","tag-coltart","tag-failure","tag-international","tag-local","tag-mayor","tag-meet","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaks","tag-stadia","tag-standards","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188027","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=188027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}