{"id":51218,"date":"2026-02-28T21:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=51218"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:57:03","slug":"mighty-warriors-fall-to-banyana-banyana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/02\/28\/mighty-warriors-fall-to-banyana-banyana\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Warriors Fall To Banyana Banyana\u2026 \u2013 Eduzim News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post_data\">\n<p>Mighty Warriors Fall To Banyana Banyana\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sports Correspondent \u2013 Zimbabwe\u2019s Mighty Warriors were knocked out of the COSAFA Women\u2019s Championship after losing to South Africa in a tense semi-final tie on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter ended 1-1 at full time following a competitive battle between the two regional rivals.<\/p>\n<p>With neither side able to find a winner in regulation time, the match was decided by a penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Banyana Banyana converted four of their spot-kicks to claim a 4-2 victory, while Zimbabwe managed two.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat brings the Mighty Warriors\u2019 COSAFA campaign to an end at the semi-final stage despite a determined performance.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- #comments --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n<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#Mighty #Warriors #Fall #Banyana #Banyana #ZimEye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mighty Warriors Fall To Banyana Banyana\u2026 Sports Correspondent \u2013 Zimbabwe\u2019s Mighty Warriors were knocked out of the COSAFA Women\u2019s Championship&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11],"tags":[9785,6694,1050,2202,202,265],"class_list":["post-51218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi","category-world","tag-banyana","tag-eduzim","tag-fall","tag-mighty","tag-news","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51218","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=51218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51220,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51218\/revisions\/51220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}