{"id":57252,"date":"2026-04-25T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=57252"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:24:09","slug":"our-football-is-going-backwards-says-norman-mapeza-after-embarrassing-incident-in-mwos-vs-scottland-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/04\/25\/our-football-is-going-backwards-says-norman-mapeza-after-embarrassing-incident-in-mwos-vs-scottland-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Our football is going backwards, says Norman Mapeza after embarrassing incident in MWOS vs Scottland game"},"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\">\n\/*  *\/\n<\/div>\n<p>Scottland FC coach Norman Mapeza has slammed his players for engaging in a half-time scuffle with MWOS players during their Castle Lager Premier Soccer League Matchday 9 encounter at Ngoni Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The players unnecessarily shoved each other just to stand in the centre of the pitch soon after the half-time whistle.<\/p>\n<p>The tussle was only diffused by the referee, who told all the players to go to the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Mapeza said the incident painted a dark picture of local football, dragging it backwards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are so many things happening in our football at this moment, and I have to be honest with you, we&#8217;re going backwards,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know what was happening on the pitch. There are some things happening that we don&#8217;t talk about, but I won&#8217;t allow such things to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t there, I had already left for the dressing room. If we as coaches start believing in such, then we have a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scottland won the match 1-0, with Khama Billiat scoring the decisive goal in the 53rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>The result placed the defending champions in third place with seventeen points, while MWOS dropped to eighth.<\/p>\n<p>The post Our football is going backwards, says Norman Mapeza after embarrassing incident in MWOS vs Scottland game 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#football #Norman #Mapeza #embarrassing #incident #MWOS #Scottland #game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/* *\/ Scottland FC coach Norman Mapeza has slammed his players for engaging in a half-time scuffle with MWOS players&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":[3359,933,347,1337,1618,4886,3309,4740],"class_list":["post-57252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-example-3","tag-embarrassing","tag-football","tag-game","tag-incident","tag-mapeza","tag-mwos","tag-norman","tag-scottland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57252","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=57252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57253,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57252\/revisions\/57253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}