{"id":128811,"date":"2019-06-21T17:29:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=128811"},"modified":"2019-06-21T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:56:14","slug":"2019-afcon-zimbabwe-to-boycott-opening-match-against-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=128811","title":{"rendered":"2019 AFCON: Zimbabwe to boycott opening match against Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-AFCON-Zimbabwe-to-boycott-opening-match-against-Egypt.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Zimbabwe national team have threatened to boycott their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, opener against Egypt tonight over non-payment of players\u2019 allowances by the country\u2019s Football Association, ZIFA.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, the Warriors are currently in a dispute with ZIFA over an agreement on players\u2019 welfare signed in May.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday Chidzambwa\u2019s men refused to train on Thursday ahead of their AFCON clash against the host nation on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to confirm that some members of Chidzambwa\u2019s side had proposed a boycott, ESPN quoted a member of Zimbabwe\u2019s travelling party as saying on Thursday: \u201cThey [ZIFA] haven\u2019t paid. \u201cWe are still waiting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey promised everything [would be paid] tomorrow [Friday] morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe are in Group A of this year\u2019s AFCON along with Egypt, Uganda, and DR Congo.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe national team have threatened to boycott their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, opener against Egypt tonight over non-payment of players\u2019 allowances by the country\u2019s Football Association, ZIFA. According to ESPN, the Warriors are currently in a dispute with ZIFA over an agreement on players\u2019 welfare signed in May. Sunday Chidzambwa\u2019s men refused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}