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But the action will now be moved elsewhere beyond the borders after the recent shocking developments.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first in the history of Zimbabwe to see national games hosted on foreign soil due to the poor state of local stadiums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football\u2019s ban on Zimbabwe has attracted international media attention. The Southern African country was barred from hosting upcoming international games after its stadiums failed to meet the required standards during an inspection conducted in November. Two matches \u2013 the Afcon qualifier against Algeria and the U20 Women\u2019s World Cup qualifier versus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[790,810],"class_list":["post-20003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-zimbabwe","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>Zimbabwe ban on hosting international games attracts international attention - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Confederation of African Football\u2019s ban on Zimbabwe has attracted international media attention.The Southern African country was barred from hosting\" \/>\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\/zimbabwe-ban-on-hosting-international-games-attracts-international-attention\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zimbabwe ban on hosting international games attracts international attention\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Confederation of African Football\u2019s ban on Zimbabwe has attracted international media attention.The Southern African country was barred from hosting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-ban-on-hosting-international-games-attracts-international-attention\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-26T20:12:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/National-Sports-Stadium-5e56d13681acb.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"420\" \/>\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\/zimbabwe-ban-on-hosting-international-games-attracts-international-attention#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-ban-on-hosting-international-games-attracts-international-attention\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Zimbabwe ban on hosting international games attracts international attention\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-26T20:12:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-ban-on-hosting-international-games-attracts-international-attention\"},\"wordCount\":120,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-ban-on-hosting-international-games-attracts-international-attention#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/National-Sports-Stadium-5e56d13681acb.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"football in Zimbabwe\",\"sports in Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-ban-on-hosting-international-games-attracts-international-attention#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-ban-on-hosting-international-games-attracts-international-attention\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimbabwe-ban-on-hosting-international-games-attracts-international-attention\",\"name\":\"Zimbabwe ban on hosting international games attracts international attention - 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