{"id":242291,"date":"2019-02-07T09:31:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T07:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=242291"},"modified":"2019-02-07T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T07:32:00","slug":"black-africa-suffers-first-league-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=242291","title":{"rendered":"Black Africa suffers first league defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242389\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 945px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sport-2nd-story-7-Feb-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242389\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sport-2nd-story-7-Feb-2019.jpg\" alt=\"Black Africa suffers first league defeat\" width=\"945\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sport-2nd-story-7-Feb-2019.jpg 945w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sport-2nd-story-7-Feb-2019-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sport-2nd-story-7-Feb-2019-768x539.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First defeat: Black Africa got beaten by Citizen._Photo: Contributed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aili Iilonga<\/p>\n<p>NAMIBIA Premier League (NPL) leading team, Black Africa, suffered its first league defeat after going down 3-1 against a fired-up resilient Citizen FC.<\/p>\n<p>Black Africa, which is currently considered a favourite to win the league, previously lost to relegated Young African at the start of the season. That defeat was, however, cancelled out after Young African\u2019s league points were nullified following the NPL\u2019s decision to demoted the team. Head Coach, Paulus Shipanga, said that the defeat was a definite wake up call to his team, which conceded silly mistakes that lead to the 3-1 thrashing against Citizen FC which meant serious business. Shipanga said that the defeat is a well-deserved one as his players did not turn up and that despite being experienced, they did not show that during the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boys made a number of silly mistakes during the game and that is not something that should happen when one has experience. The defeat is a well-deserved one and going forward I hope my players will understand that football can humble you if you think that you are superior,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the team will now go back to the drawing board and assess its next plan of action as the team will travel to Walvis Bay to face Blue Waters on Sunday at the Kuisebmund stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aili Iilonga NAMIBIA Premier League (NPL) leading team, Black Africa, suffered its first league defeat after going down 3-1 against a fired-up resilient Citizen FC. Black Africa, which is currently considered a favourite to win the league, previously lost to relegated Young African at the start of the season. That defeat was, however, cancelled out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Black Africa suffers first league defeat - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NAMIBIA Premier League (NPL) leading team, Black Africa, suffered its first league defeat after going down 3-1 against a fired-up resilient Citizen FC.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=242291\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Africa suffers first league defeat - 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