{"id":211208,"date":"2025-10-25T08:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bosso-coach-starts-huge-debate\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:07:49","slug":"zimbabwe-bosso-coach-starts-huge-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bosso-coach-starts-huge-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Bosso Coach Starts Huge Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">In the Build up to the Chibuku Super Cup semi-final showdown between Dynamos and Highlanders at Rufaro on Sunday, Bosso coach Pieter de Jongh has started a heated debate on the importance of the two clubs to the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;For me both teams have a big status in Zimbabwean football and Zimbabwean football needs both teams,&#8221; de Jongh said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Fans have responded on social media with different views on how important the two clubs are to Zimbabwe football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Ezrah Nkhoma said: _&#8221;If the big three do not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510240429.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>In the Build up to the Chibuku Super Cup semi-final showdown between Dynamos and Highlanders at Rufaro on Sunday, Bosso coach Pieter de Jongh has started a heated debate on the importance of the two clubs to the country. &#8220;For me both teams have a big status in Zimbabwean football and Zimbabwean football needs both [&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":[258,256,21055,7346,9086,8409,257,254,8899,4686,421],"class_list":["post-211208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bosso","tag-coach","tag-debate","tag-huge","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starts","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211208","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=211208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211208\/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=211208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}