{"id":9196,"date":"2014-04-25T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/9196\/clive-barker-wins-coach-award\/"},"modified":"2014-04-25T11:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T09:01:36","slug":"clive-barker-wins-coach-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/04\/25\/clive-barker-wins-coach-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Clive Barker wins Coach award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This, after Barker turned Black Aces into a force to be reckoned with amongst the top flight teams, beating both Pirates and Chiefs away from home to help AmaZayoni enter the top half of the log with just four games to go.<\/p>\n<p>Even Mayor Mike Masina, a die-hard Pirates fan, was forced to admit this week the quality team that is Black Aces, and agreed with their \u201cGiant Killers\u201d tag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dog\u201d beat stiff competition from the likes of Pitso Mosimane and Gavin Hunt who have done very well with their clubs in the third quarter too, the PSL reported.<\/p>\n<p>Judges convener Farouk Khan stated on the PSL website: \u201cBarker is no stranger to league success having won top flight league honours with Durban Bush Bucks and Santos, and is known in the football industry as a superb motivator, which allows for players to feel like champions and match winners when taking to the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bidvest Wits striker Sthembiso Ngcobo won the player award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mpumalanga Black Aces coach Clive Barker was announced by the PSL on Tuesday as the \u201cCoach of the third Quarter\u201d and with it a cash prize of R15 000, courtesy of ABSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":9197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,11,2,2886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-news","category-local-sports","category-news-headlines","category-sports-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}