{"id":235053,"date":"2026-06-01T17:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mapeza-challenges-scottland-fc-players-to-maintain-momentum-after-victory-over-caps-united\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:05:54","slug":"zimbabwe-mapeza-challenges-scottland-fc-players-to-maintain-momentum-after-victory-over-caps-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mapeza-challenges-scottland-fc-players-to-maintain-momentum-after-victory-over-caps-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mapeza Challenges Scottland FC Players to Maintain Momentum After Victory Over Caps United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">SCOTTLAND FC head coach Norman Mapeza has challenged his players to maintain their winning momentum after securing a convincing 2-0 victory over rivals CAPS United in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match played at the National Sports Stadium (NSS) Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The win strengthened Scottland&#8217;s position in the league standings, as the team leapfrogged from position four to position two with 28 points, the same with log leaders Hardrock FC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Mabvirawira&#8217;s win was enabled by two early first half goals&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606010242.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>SCOTTLAND FC head coach Norman Mapeza has challenged his players to maintain their winning momentum after securing a convincing 2-0 victory over rivals CAPS United in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match played at the National Sports Stadium (NSS) Sunday. The win strengthened Scottland&#8217;s position in the league standings, as the team leapfrogged from [&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":[258,256,8897,6977,7505,10092,16362,257,9444,50777,254,7866,10099,4686,421],"class_list":["post-235053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caps","tag-challenges","tag-maintain","tag-mapeza","tag-momentum","tag-news","tag-players","tag-scottland","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united","tag-victory","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235053","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=235053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235053\/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=235053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}