{"id":40284,"date":"2021-11-05T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=40284"},"modified":"2021-11-05T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:05:21","slug":"simba-vow-to-end-bluntness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness","title":{"rendered":"Simba vow to end bluntness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span>AFTER a 1-0 late win over Namungo on Wednesday, Simba have vowed to use the international FIFA break to sharpen the team\u2019s striking section before resumption of the league.<\/p>\n<p>The NBC Premier League has been temporarily paused to pave way for the country\u2019s envoys, Taifa Stars to host Democratic Republic of Congo in the crucial 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers match on November 11th at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, the envoys will head to Madagascar for their final group J qualifying match as such; the sixth round of the Premier League is pegged to resume from November 16th. At a post-match briefing, Simba\u2019s interim coach Thierry Hitimana said they intend to use well the break to improve coordination among the players who will not join their respective national teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe league is very difficult and Simba are also passing through a tough period after enjoying success for a long period. This is just a transition period and we need to find good ways to manage it. \u201cIn terms of playing football, we are doing that but our main problem is turning the opportunities into goals. This is one thing we must sort out now,\u201d Hitimana said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that after the Jwaneng Galaxy match, they have hardly enough time to train together as such; coordination among some of players is still a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the former Namungo trainer disclosed that their primary role on the day was to get three important points even though it came late into the game while insisting that they will do a lot during the break period. Again, Hitimana pointed out that a number of his players are on injury list that is why they are rotating much the squad as such, when they begin to recover, things will return back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>His Namungo compatriot, Hemed Morocco said lack of concentration in the closing stages of the match was the reason which made them lose the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that Simba will have pressure in the first 25 to 30 minutes of the game that is why we deployed many midfielders to contain that pressure of which we succeeded. \u201cI believe if we played with all eleven players on the pitch, we could have managed to get good results but that red card changed our game plan even though we worked hard to contain them,\u201d he said. Furthermore, he pledged to bring a new Namungo team after playing at least seven league matches saying most of the players they have are new and have not yet gained the required chemistry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. AFTER a 1-0 late win over Namungo on Wednesday, Simba have vowed to use the international FIFA break to sharpen the team\u2019s striking section before resumption of the league. The NBC Premier League has been temporarily paused to pave way for the country\u2019s envoys, Taifa Stars to host Democratic Republic of Congo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-40284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Simba vow to end bluntness - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AFTER a 1-0 late win over Namungo on Wednesday, Simba have vowed to use the international FIFA break to sharpen the team ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Simba vow to end bluntness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AFTER a 1-0 late win over Namungo on Wednesday, Simba have vowed to use the international FIFA break to sharpen the team ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-05T17:44:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/11\/img-61854815c8c83.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"859\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"464\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Simba vow to end bluntness\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-05T17:44:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness\"},\"wordCount\":449,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/11\/img-61854815c8c83.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Tanzania\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness\",\"name\":\"Simba vow to end bluntness - Tanzania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/11\/img-61854815c8c83.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-05T17:44:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"AFTER a 1-0 late win over Namungo on Wednesday, Simba have vowed to use the international FIFA break to sharpen the team ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/11\/img-61854815c8c83.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/11\/img-61854815c8c83.jpg\",\"width\":859,\"height\":464,\"caption\":\"Simba vow to end bluntness\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Simba vow to end bluntness\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\",\"name\":\"Tanzania\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Simba vow to end bluntness - Tanzania","description":"AFTER a 1-0 late win over Namungo on Wednesday, Simba have vowed to use the international FIFA break to sharpen the team ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Simba vow to end bluntness","og_description":"AFTER a 1-0 late win over Namungo on Wednesday, Simba have vowed to use the international FIFA break to sharpen the team ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness","og_site_name":"Tanzania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-11-05T17:44:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":859,"height":464,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/11\/img-61854815c8c83.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Simba vow to end bluntness","datePublished":"2021-11-05T17:44:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness"},"wordCount":449,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/11\/img-61854815c8c83.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Tanzania","tanzania"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","sport","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness","name":"Simba vow to end bluntness - Tanzania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/11\/img-61854815c8c83.jpg","datePublished":"2021-11-05T17:44:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"AFTER a 1-0 late win over Namungo on Wednesday, Simba have vowed to use the international FIFA break to sharpen the team ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/11\/img-61854815c8c83.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/11\/img-61854815c8c83.jpg","width":859,"height":464,"caption":"Simba vow to end bluntness"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/simba-vow-to-end-bluntness#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Simba vow to end bluntness"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/","name":"Tanzania","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}