{"id":18404,"date":"2022-03-16T21:10:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T21:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia"},"modified":"2022-03-16T21:19:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T21:19:21","slug":"south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Coach Explains Why He Cancelled Friendly With Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>\u201cWhat we saw after the qualifiers for the World Cup, we need stronger opponents\u2026 I\u2019m told that in the past the friendly games, South Africa, were always against teams like Botswana, Mozambique, I\u2019m sorry, no disrespect for Botswana, but you can learn nothing in those games cos you\u2019re the better team and you win and everybody\u2019s happy\u2026So now we have two games.<\/p>\n

World Champion (France), I don\u2019t have to explain that. Guinea, who played a very good Afcon, very good players, all playing in Europe. So it will be a tough game also. And from those games, you can learn a lot. And the result is not important if we lose two times, okay. But what we see and what we can evaluate after those games is ten times more than if we play against Botswana or whatever.<\/p>\n

So you see immediately what players are, how good they are, can we use them for the next qualifiers, but then no excuse anymore, we have to go to Ivory Coast AFCON next year, this is for sure,\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. \u201cWhat we saw after the qualifiers for the World Cup, we need stronger opponents\u2026 I\u2019m told that in the past the friendly games, South Africa, were always against teams like Botswana, Mozambique, I\u2019m sorry, no disrespect for Botswana, but you can learn nothing in those games cos you\u2019re the better team and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-18404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nSouth Africa Coach Explains Why He Cancelled Friendly With Zambia - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cWhat we saw after the qualifiers for the World Cup, we need stronger opponents\u2026 I\u2019m told that in the past the friendly ...\" \/>\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\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"South Africa Coach Explains Why He Cancelled Friendly With Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWhat we saw after the qualifiers for the World Cup, we need stronger opponents\u2026 I\u2019m told that in the past the friendly ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-16T21:10:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-16T21:19:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/03\/img-6232544134f3a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1261\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1261\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"South Africa Coach Explains Why He Cancelled Friendly With Zambia\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-16T21:10:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-16T21:19:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia\"},\"wordCount\":204,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/03\/img-6232544134f3a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/south-africa-coach-explains-why-he-cancelled-friendly-with-zambia\",\"name\":\"South Africa Coach Explains Why He Cancelled Friendly With Zambia - 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