{"id":16812,"date":"2019-12-15T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T19:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=16812"},"modified":"2019-12-15T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T19:26:23","slug":"its-heartbreaking-dodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/its-heartbreaking-dodo","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s heartbreaking: Dodo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPS United coach Darlington Dodo says losing the title race to FC Platinum on the final day is heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Machine needed a win in their title-deciding match against the Platinum Boys on Saturday but lost 1-0 to finish the 2019 season in the 3rd position.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Dodo said: \u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking, after all the good effort that we put from the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we have failed to achieve what we wanted to achieve on the last day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boys tried to give their best, we did not rise to the expectations that we wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CAPS United who surrendered the top spot in the penultimate round amassed 58 points, four behind winners <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCPlatinum?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">FC Platinum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect Chikwende scored the all-important goal in the 60th minute as the Zvishavane-based side took home the title for the third successive time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPS United coach Darlington Dodo says losing the title race to FC Platinum on the final day is heartbreaking. The Green Machine needed a win in their title-deciding match against the Platinum Boys on Saturday but lost 1-0 to finish the 2019 season in the 3rd position. Speaking after the match, Dodo said: \u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[417,810],"class_list":{"0":"post-16812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-fc-platinum","10":"tag-sports-in-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s heartbreaking: Dodo - 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\/its-heartbreaking-dodo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It\u2019s heartbreaking: Dodo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CAPS United coach Darlington Dodo says losing the title race to FC Platinum on the final day is heartbreaking. 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