{"id":4068,"date":"2019-02-18T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:32:33","slug":"zim-not-ready-to-host-2019-cosafa-tournament-kirsty-coventry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zim-not-ready-to-host-2019-cosafa-tournament-kirsty-coventry","title":{"rendered":"Zim Not Ready To Host 2019 COSAFA Tournament \u2013 Kirsty Coventry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe will not host the 2019 COSAFA tournament. The tournament was scheduled to begin on May 19.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists in Harare on Monday, Minister for Sports, Kirsty Coventry said that hosting Cosafa is not good for the country and the Zimbabwe Football Association. Said Coventry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . it\u2019s been agreed that the deal was just not very good for the country or for Zifa so we will not be hosting the Cosafa games this year but we look forward to having adequate time to be able to host a world-class event in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>We want to make sure that when we do host events of this magnitude that we are fully prepared, we have good timing and just don\u2019t feel that was really given to us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe will not host the 2019 COSAFA tournament. The tournament was scheduled to begin on May 19. Speaking to journalists in Harare on Monday, Minister for Sports, Kirsty Coventry said that hosting Cosafa is not good for the country and the Zimbabwe Football Association. Said Coventry: . . . it\u2019s been agreed that the deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[84,74,349],"class_list":{"0":"post-4068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tournament"},"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>Zim Not Ready To Host 2019 COSAFA Tournament \u2013 Kirsty Coventry - 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\/zim-not-ready-to-host-2019-cosafa-tournament-kirsty-coventry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zim Not Ready To Host 2019 COSAFA Tournament \u2013 Kirsty Coventry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zimbabwe will not host the 2019 COSAFA tournament. 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