{"id":12304,"date":"2014-06-11T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=12304"},"modified":"2014-06-11T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T12:30:53","slug":"psl-suspend-league-cosafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/sports-news\/2014\/06\/11\/psl-suspend-league-cosafa\/","title":{"rendered":"PSL suspend league for COSAFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament will be staged in Botswana from\u00a013-28 September.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that will not be changed is the domestic MTN8 final that will take place on\u00a0September 20, but aside from players from the two teams involved in that clash, the new Bafana coach will be able to select players from the rest of the PSL for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the tournament falling outside of the assigned FIFA calendar dates, clubs are not obliged to release their players and could deny the national team access to their players if they want.<\/p>\n<p>The Cosafa Cup falls between the second and third rounds of qualifying for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, providing a good window of opportunity for the Bafana players to get acquainted with the new coach.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa will have a new coach in their hierarchy after SAFA confirmed earlier this month that they will not be renewing Gordon Igesund\u2019s contract which will expire in July 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League Soccer (PSL) have taken Bafana Bafana\u2019s international fixtures into account and have opted to suspend the league for two weeks during the 2014 Cosafa Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":12305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2887,2886],"tags":[1565,1566,3,1567],"class_list":["post-12304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-sport","category-sports-news","tag-psl-branding","tag-soccer","tag-sports-news","tag-team"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"General"},"tag_labels":["Psl Branding","soccer","Sport","team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}