{"id":224271,"date":"2026-02-19T00:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-chula-chula-focused-on-survival-despite-topping-league\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:45:31","slug":"namibia-chula-chula-focused-on-survival-despite-topping-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-chula-chula-focused-on-survival-despite-topping-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Chula Chula Focused On Survival Despite Topping League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>Eeshoke Chula Chula head coach John Sikerete says his side&#8217;s primary objective remains survival in the Namibia Premier Football League, despite climbing to the top of the log after back-to-back victories over the past weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Sikerete&#8217;s charges beat Tigers 4-2 in Windhoek before edging Young Africans 1-0 at Gobabis, results that have sparked talk of a possible title challenge. However, the coach insists the focus is firmly on consolidation rather than silverware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;Our target is to stay in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180275.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eeshoke Chula Chula head coach John Sikerete says his side&#8217;s primary objective remains survival in the Namibia Premier Football League, despite climbing to the top of the log after back-to-back victories over the past weekend. Sikerete&#8217;s charges beat Tigers 4-2 in Windhoek before edging Young Africans 1-0 at Gobabis, results that have sparked talk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224272,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,53698,10060,7027,4706,724,257,254,15938,42696],"class_list":["post-224271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chula","tag-focused","tag-league","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survival","tag-topping"],"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\/224271","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=224271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}