{"id":11564,"date":"2019-07-24T15:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=11564"},"modified":"2019-07-24T15:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:56:44","slug":"kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban","title":{"rendered":"Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports minister Kirsty Coventry has maintained that Zimbabwe was not in a good position to host the 2019 Cosafa Cup.<\/p>\n<p>This follows after the regional body banned the Warriors from taking part in next year\u2019s senior men edition.<\/p>\n<p>The country pulled out of holding the competition in the last minute, a development which has also attracted a US$200 000 fine. The ban could have been avoided if Zifa had agreed to host the 2020 competition and were supposed to submit their response before June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on Social Media, Coventry says hosting the tournament was never ideal for the country since the offer was too low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports minister Kirsty Coventry has maintained that Zimbabwe was not in a good position to host the 2019 Cosafa Cup. This follows after the regional body banned the Warriors from taking part in next year\u2019s senior men edition. The country pulled out of holding the competition in the last minute, a development which has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[572,84,390,74],"class_list":["post-11564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-cosafa","tag-football","tag-league","tag-sports"],"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>Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban - zimbabwe<\/title>\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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sports minister Kirsty Coventry has maintained that Zimbabwe was not in a good position to host the 2019 Cosafa Cup. This follows after the regional body banned the Warriors from taking part in next year\u2019s senior men edition. The country pulled out of holding the competition in the last minute, a development which has also [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-24T15:56:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Kirsty-Coventry__10.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"485\" \/>\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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-24T15:56:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban\"},\"wordCount\":110,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Kirsty-Coventry__10.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"COSAFA\",\"Football\",\"league\",\"Sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban\",\"name\":\"Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Kirsty-Coventry__10.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-24T15:56:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Kirsty-Coventry__10.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Kirsty-Coventry__10.jpg\",\"width\":728,\"height\":485},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?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\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban - zimbabwe","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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban","og_description":"Sports minister Kirsty Coventry has maintained that Zimbabwe was not in a good position to host the 2019 Cosafa Cup. This follows after the regional body banned the Warriors from taking part in next year\u2019s senior men edition. The country pulled out of holding the competition in the last minute, a development which has also [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2019-07-24T15:56:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":728,"height":485,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Kirsty-Coventry__10.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban","datePublished":"2019-07-24T15:56:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban"},"wordCount":110,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Kirsty-Coventry__10.jpg","keywords":["COSAFA","Football","league","Sports"],"articleSection":["all news","sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban","name":"Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Kirsty-Coventry__10.jpg","datePublished":"2019-07-24T15:56:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Kirsty-Coventry__10.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/07\/Kirsty-Coventry__10.jpg","width":728,"height":485},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kirsty-coventry-comments-on-warriors-cosafa-ban#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kirsty Coventry comments on Warriors\u2019 Cosafa ban"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?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\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}