{"id":55777,"date":"2026-04-11T23:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=55777"},"modified":"2026-04-11T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:50:03","slug":"caf-president-patrice-motsepe-gives-positive-assessment-on-zifa-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/04\/11\/caf-president-patrice-motsepe-gives-positive-assessment-on-zifa-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF President Patrice Motsepe gives positive assessment on ZIFA leadership"},"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 class=\"soccer24-advanced-banner soccer24-banner-type-code\"><\/div>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football president, Patrice Motsepe, has given a positive assessment of the leadership of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) under Nqobile Magwizi.<\/p>\n<p>Motsepe was in attendance at the finals of the 2026 African Schools Football Championship at Ngoni Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the tournament, the CAF president said the Magwizi-led board has achieved &#8220;enormous progress&#8221; so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will start by thanking my brother at ZIFA, thank you for the leadership you are providing,\u201d said Motsepe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us can see the enormous progress since you arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the successful hosting of the junior tournament, Motsepe added: \u201cIt is very important that we continue to give hosting opportunities to countries that would not ordinarily qualify for such events, because in doing so we give them a platform to compete at the highest level, to showcase their abilities and to prove that they too can organise and deliver football of the highest standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe hosted the African Schools Football Championship tournament from 2\u201310 April, with all group games played at Gateway High School, before the action moved to Ngoni Stadium for the semi-finals and finals in both the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The post CAF President Patrice Motsepe gives positive assessment on ZIFA leadership appeared first on Soccer24.<\/p>\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#CAF #President #Patrice #Motsepe #positive #assessment #ZIFA #leadership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football president, Patrice Motsepe, has given a positive assessment of the leadership of the Zimbabwe Football&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1831,922,4088,924,923,3034,313,284],"class_list":["post-55777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-example-3","tag-assessment","tag-caf","tag-leadership","tag-motsepe","tag-patrice","tag-positive","tag-president","tag-zifa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55777","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=55777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55778,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55777\/revisions\/55778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}