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Zimbabwe under-17 boys’ disastrous performance at the ongoing COSAFA tournament has once again exposed the local football mother body’s neglect of the grassroots system.<\/p>\n
The Young Warriors were knocked out of the tournament on Monday by Comoros, suffering a 3-2 defeat, which left them winless in Group A, alongside fellow underperformers Eswatini.<\/p>\n
The defeat at Ngoni Stadium exposed the Zimbabwe Football Association’s (ZIFA) lack of investment and clear structures in grassroots football.<\/p>\n
\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Zimbabwe under-17 boys’ disastrous performance at the ongoing COSAFA tournament has once again exposed the local football mother body’s neglect of the grassroots system. The Young Warriors were knocked out of the tournament on Monday by Comoros, suffering a 3-2 defeat, which left them winless in Group A, alongside fellow underperformers Eswatini. The defeat at […]<\/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":[258,256,47561,4302,9360,10481,3299,9730,5972,257,254,10304,7720,26540,4686,421],"class_list":["post-207587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calamitous","tag-campaign","tag-cosafa","tag-exposes","tag-football","tag-junior","tag-neglect","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warriors","tag-young","tag-zifas","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207587","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=207587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207587\/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=207587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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