{"id":15369,"date":"2019-10-29T20:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=15369"},"modified":"2019-10-29T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:20:56","slug":"city-council-dumps-harare-city-football-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/city-council-dumps-harare-city-football-club","title":{"rendered":"City Council dumps Harare City Football Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hararecity.co.zw\/\">Harare City Council<\/a> has withdrawn from sponsoring Premier Soccer League side Harare City,\u00a0 can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n<p>In his State of the City address, Harare Mayor Obert Gomba confirmed that the Sunshine Boys will have a different sponsor starting from next season as the City Fathers have withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are no longer going to continue sponsoring Harare City FC as we have other priorities,\u201d said Gomba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor next season, I appeal to the Harare City FC to look for sponsorship somewhere else and not from us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council has sponsored the Sunshine Boys since their first promotion to the top-flight league in 2012. The sponsorship, however, was marred with controversy following revelations of serious overspending.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the development has dealt a massive blow to the Harare-based club as they are fig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harare City Council has withdrawn from sponsoring Premier Soccer League side Harare City,\u00a0 can exclusively reveal. In his State of the City address, Harare Mayor Obert Gomba confirmed that the Sunshine Boys will have a different sponsor starting from next season as the City Fathers have withdrawn. \u201cWe are no longer going to continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[852,560,810],"class_list":["post-15369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-harare-city-council","tag-psl","tag-sports-in-zimbabwe"],"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>City Council dumps Harare City Football Club - 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\/city-council-dumps-harare-city-football-club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City Council dumps Harare City Football Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Harare City Council has withdrawn from sponsoring Premier Soccer League side Harare City,\u00a0 can exclusively reveal. 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