{"id":206936,"date":"2025-09-12T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/zimbabwe-mozambique-zim-under-17-falls-to-mozambique-in-cosafa-cup-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:33:07","slug":"zimbabwe-mozambique-zim-under-17-falls-to-mozambique-in-cosafa-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/zimbabwe-mozambique-zim-under-17-falls-to-mozambique-in-cosafa-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\/Mozambique: Zim Under-17 Falls to Mozambique in Cosafa Cup Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Zimbabwe Under-17 team on Thursday kicked off their Africa Cup of Nations: COSAFA Qualifiers with a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Mozambique at Ngoni Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Young Warriors conceded 8 minutes into the game and failed to get an equaliser despite good attempts in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Thursday&#8217;s result left Zimbabwe in 3rd position in Group A with 0 points, while Comoros is sitting on top with 3 points, the same as Mozambique, who are in second place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Speaking after the match, Zimbabwe&#8217;s coach&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120189.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Under-17 team on Thursday kicked off their Africa Cup of Nations: COSAFA Qualifiers with a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Mozambique at Ngoni Stadium. The Young Warriors conceded 8 minutes into the game and failed to get an equaliser despite good attempts in the second half. Thursday&#8217;s result left Zimbabwe in 3rd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206937,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,9360,6674,7668,4704,682,257,13937,254,22775,6923,52320],"class_list":["post-206936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cosafa","tag-cup","tag-falls","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-south-africa-today","tag-under17","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwemozambique"],"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\/206936","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=206936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}