{"id":198848,"date":"2025-05-26T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ian-bakala-suffers-first-defeat-as-caps-united-coach\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:43:02","slug":"zimbabwe-ian-bakala-suffers-first-defeat-as-caps-united-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ian-bakala-suffers-first-defeat-as-caps-united-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Ian Bakala Suffers First Defeat As Caps United Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">CAPS United&#8217;s woes seem unabating despite having a new technical team led by Ian Bakala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Makepekepe were Sunday handed a 3-1 defeat at home by Simba Bhora, marking Bakala&#8217;s first defeat since his appointment three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Sunday&#8217;s defeat came at the back of two consecutive draws against Herentals (1-1) and Dynamos (1-1) for Makepekepe under Bakala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">CAPS United were outclassed by Simba Bhora in Sunday&#8217;s match as they went to the break trailing 2-0 before Simba made it 3-0 five minutes into the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505260223.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>CAPS United&#8217;s woes seem unabating despite having a new technical team led by Ian Bakala. Makepekepe were Sunday handed a 3-1 defeat at home by Simba Bhora, marking Bakala&#8217;s first defeat since his appointment three weeks ago. Sunday&#8217;s defeat came at the back of two consecutive draws against Herentals (1-1) and Dynamos (1-1) for Makepekepe [&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":[258,256,45360,8897,7346,6531,11241,257,254,9083,7866,4686,421],"class_list":["post-198848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bakala","tag-caps","tag-coach","tag-defeat","tag-ian","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suffers","tag-united","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198848","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=198848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198848\/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=198848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}