{"id":41238,"date":"2024-07-31T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41238"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:32:09","slug":"2026-wcq-super-eagles-group-opponent-zimbabwe-appoints-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/31\/2026-wcq-super-eagles-group-opponent-zimbabwe-appoints-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WCQ: Super Eagles Group Opponent Zimbabwe Appoints New Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has announced the appointment of German-born Michael Nees as the new head coach of the country\u2019s senior men\u2019s national team, Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>The football body announced the appointment in a statement release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Zimbabwe Football Association is delighted to announce the appointment of Michael Nees as the new head coach of the Zimbabwe Men\u2019s National Team,\u201d Lincoln Mutasa, Chairman \u2013 ZIFA Normalisation Committee said in the statement.<br \/>\n\u201cThe 57-year-old German will lead the Warriors in their quest for success in the AFCON 2025 and FIFA 2026 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZIFA is confident that Michael Nees\u2019s appointment will usher in a new era of success for the Warriors. His vast experience, combined with his innovative coaching style, makes him the ideal candidate to lead our national team to new heights.\u201d<br \/>\nZimbabwe are currently bottom in Group C of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors will be guests to the Super Eagles of Nigeria on matchday 6 of the qualifiers in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has announced the appointment of German-born Michael Nees as the new head coach of the country\u2019s senior men\u2019s national team, Warriors. The football body announced the appointment in a statement release on Tuesday. \u201cThe Zimbabwe Football Association is delighted to announce the appointment of Michael Nees as the new head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1285],"class_list":["post-41238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-zimbabwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41240,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41238\/revisions\/41240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}