{"id":193289,"date":"2025-03-10T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-coach-notsi-eyeing-improvements-in-2026-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:03:19","slug":"lesotho-coach-notsi-eyeing-improvements-in-2026-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-coach-notsi-eyeing-improvements-in-2026-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Coach Notsi Eyeing Improvements in 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Lesotho coach Leslie Notsi has wealth of experience from more than a decade working the Lesotho&#8217;s national teams, plus coaching experience in South Africa. The 60-year-old spoke to CAFOnline about Lesotho&#8217;s next two assignments in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers plus other aspects of the game in the mountain kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"118\"><strong>Have you started your preparations for this month&#8217;s two FIFA World Cup qualifiers away in South Africa and Rwanda?<\/strong>&#8220;We have started with the local players, with training sessions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503100437.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesotho coach Leslie Notsi has wealth of experience from more than a decade working the Lesotho&#8217;s national teams, plus coaching experience in South Africa. The 60-year-old spoke to CAFOnline about Lesotho&#8217;s next two assignments in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers plus other aspects of the game in the mountain kingdom. Have you started your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193290,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7346,6674,20057,9109,20819,4717,1407,257,23327,7318,254,5093],"class_list":["post-193289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coach","tag-cup","tag-eyeing","tag-fifa","tag-improvements","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-notsi","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/193289","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=193289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}