{"id":46307,"date":"2025-12-31T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=46307"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:04:23","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwarriors-coach-marian-marinica-speaks-on-mistakes-in-loss-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/12\/31\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwarriors-coach-marian-marinica-speaks-on-mistakes-in-loss-against-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors coach Marian Marinica speaks on mistakes in loss against South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-139373\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<!-- .entry-header -->&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"454\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Warriors-coach-Marian-Marinica-speaks-on-mistakes-in-loss-against.png?resize=454%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"object-contain h-46 w-full rounded-lg  md:rounded-none md:rounded-lg wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/warriors-technical-Marian-Marinica-Kaitano-Tembo.png?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/warriors-technical-Marian-Marinica-Kaitano-Tembo.png?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/warriors-technical-Marian-Marinica-Kaitano-Tembo.png?resize=1024%2C595&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/warriors-technical-Marian-Marinica-Kaitano-Tembo.png?resize=768%2C446&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/warriors-technical-Marian-Marinica-Kaitano-Tembo.png?resize=454%2C264&amp;ssl=1 454w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/warriors-technical-Marian-Marinica-Kaitano-Tembo.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content custom-text-styles\">\n<div class=\"soccer24-advanced-banner soccer24-banner-type-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Warriors-coach-Marian-Marinica-speaks-on-mistakes-in-loss-against.jpeg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Banner2image\" class=\"soccer24-banner-image\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Warriors coach Marian Marinica has commented on his charges\u2019 mistakes that cost the team in their 3-2 loss against South Africa on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The national team suffered the defeat to finish at the bottom of Group B at AFCON and exit the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe conceded all three goals from mistakes, with Divine Lunga giving the ball away for the first two goals, while captain Marvelous Nakamba handled the ball while trying to clear it, affording Bafana Bafana to score from a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Marinica admitted the mistakes but refused to blame anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision is sometimes tricky and this leads to making mistakes and the recovery might come slower, \u201che said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople make mistakes, you want to cross the road and sometimes you stumble. What\u2019s important hardworking, determination and make your country proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the result put South Africa second as they qualified for the Round of 16 together with leaders Egypt, while Angola finished third.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related Posts<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t<!-- \n\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t\t<span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in Local<\/span><span class=\"tags-links\">Tagged 2025 afcon, Marian Marinica, South Africa, Warriors<\/span>\t<\/footer>\n\n -->&#13;\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Warriors #coach #Marian #Marinica #speaks #mistakes #loss #South #Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Warriors coach Marian Marinica has commented on his charges\u2019 mistakes that cost the team in their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[151,573,1696,9183,9184,2442,150,2492,265],"class_list":["post-46307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-example-3","tag-africa","tag-coach","tag-loss","tag-marian","tag-marinica","tag-mistakes","tag-south","tag-speaks","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46308,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46307\/revisions\/46308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}