{"id":193702,"date":"2025-03-16T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-pirates-vow-to-resolve-fifa-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T19:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:13:39","slug":"namibia-pirates-vow-to-resolve-fifa-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-pirates-vow-to-resolve-fifa-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Pirates Vow to Resolve FIFA Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Fallen Namibian football giants Orlando Pirates FC intend to make amends with the International Federation of Association Football (Fifa) to be allowed to compete in the Southern Stream First Division (SSFD).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The troubled club missed the first round of matches last weekend because of a sanction imposed by the Fifa Dispute Resolution Chamber, SSFD chairman Murs Markus said in an interview with Desert Radio this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;They have not honoured the sanction yet. Part of the condition was that they need&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130373.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fallen Namibian football giants Orlando Pirates FC intend to make amends with the International Federation of Association Football (Fifa) to be allowed to compete in the Southern Stream First Division (SSFD). The troubled club missed the first round of matches last weekend because of a sanction imposed by the Fifa Dispute Resolution Chamber, SSFD chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7185,9109,4706,724,257,2797,14942,254,11704],"class_list":["post-193702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-fifa","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pirates","tag-resolve","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vow"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193702","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=193702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}