{"id":189886,"date":"2025-01-28T16:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-unveil-swiss-coach-hauptle-to-lead-national-team\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:45:47","slug":"zambia-unveil-swiss-coach-hauptle-to-lead-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-unveil-swiss-coach-hauptle-to-lead-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Unveil Swiss Coach H\u00e4uptle to Lead National Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has announced the appointment of Nora H\u00e4uptle, a former Swiss national team defender, as the new head coach of the Copper Queens on a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">H\u00e4uptle, who has also led the Ghanaian national side, brings a wealth of experience and has been tasked with taking Zambia to the next level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8220;One of the main goals is to win the CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations in July, but also to qualify the team for the 2026 edition, which will serve as a stepping&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501280107.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>The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has announced the appointment of Nora H\u00e4uptle, a former Swiss national team defender, as the new head coach of the Copper Queens on a three-year contract. H\u00e4uptle, who has also led the Ghanaian national side, brings a wealth of experience and has been tasked with taking Zambia to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":189887,"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":[258,256,7346,47026,7358,6687,257,254,14397,7142,15437,4709,881],"class_list":["post-189886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coach","tag-hauptle","tag-lead","tag-national","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swiss","tag-team","tag-unveil","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\/189886","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=189886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}