{"id":211497,"date":"2025-10-27T20:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zifas-hunt-for-new-warriors-coach-begins\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:13:47","slug":"zimbabwe-zifas-hunt-for-new-warriors-coach-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zifas-hunt-for-new-warriors-coach-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zifa&#8217;s Hunt for New Warriors Coach Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has begun its hunt for a new Warriors coach, following the sacking of German tactician Michael Nees last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Calls for applications for the vacant post were advertised by ZIFA on Monday, with a CAF Pro license being the minimum requirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Sources at ZIFA told New Zimbabwe.com that the association is not planning to settle for a local coach, but prefer one Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">With less than two months before the 2025 AFCON finals start, ZIFA is expected to complete&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510270686.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>The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has begun its hunt for a new Warriors coach, following the sacking of German tactician Michael Nees last week. Calls for applications for the vacant post were advertised by ZIFA on Monday, with a CAF Pro license being the minimum requirement. Sources at ZIFA told New Zimbabwe.com that the association [&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":[258,256,8082,7346,6644,257,254,10304,26540,4686,421],"class_list":["post-211497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-begins","tag-coach","tag-hunt","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warriors","tag-zifas","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211497","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=211497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211497\/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=211497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}