{"id":204321,"date":"2025-08-09T15:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-defending-champions-dynamos-prioritising-relegation-survival-over-chibuku-super-cup-win\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T15:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:19:03","slug":"zimbabwe-defending-champions-dynamos-prioritising-relegation-survival-over-chibuku-super-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-defending-champions-dynamos-prioritising-relegation-survival-over-chibuku-super-cup-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Defending Champions Dynamos Prioritising Relegation Survival Over Chibuku Super Cup Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Dynamos FC is this season not prioritising winning the Chibuku Super Cup tournament despite being the defending champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The two-time winners revealed this on Wednesday after eliminating Yadah in the preliminary round of the tournament at Ngoni stadium via penalties 4-3 following a nil-all draw in regulation time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Having won the Chibuku Super Cup back to back in 2023 and 2024, Dembare is not worried about chasing a new record of winning the prestigious knockout tournament three times in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508080188.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>Dynamos FC is this season not prioritising winning the Chibuku Super Cup tournament despite being the defending champions. The two-time winners revealed this on Wednesday after eliminating Yadah in the preliminary round of the tournament at Ngoni stadium via penalties 4-3 following a nil-all draw in regulation time. Having won the Chibuku Super Cup back [&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":[258,256,14490,15120,6674,5050,17767,257,25171,15628,254,9095,15938,6660,4686,421],"class_list":["post-204321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-champions","tag-chibuku","tag-cup","tag-defending","tag-dynamos","tag-news","tag-prioritising","tag-relegation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-survival","tag-win","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204321","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=204321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204321\/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=204321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}