{"id":6300,"date":"2025-09-02T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/fifa-silence-on-sanction-for-errant-south-africa-a-mystery\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:47:23","slug":"fifa-silence-on-sanction-for-errant-south-africa-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/fifa-silence-on-sanction-for-errant-south-africa-a-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA silence on sanction for errant South Africa a mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">CAPE TOWN &ndash; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>FIFA&rsquo;s reticence to dock World Cup points from South Africa for using a defaulter in a March fixture is casting a cloud and creating confusion ahead of this week&rsquo;s potentially decisive round of African qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa, which admits its mistake, erroneously fielded midfielder Tebeho Mokoena in a 2-0 home win over neighbors Lesotho when he should have sat out the World Cup qualifier after two cautions in previous fixtures in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa was severely embarrassed after belatedly discovering the mistake but insists because its opponents did not protest, it will not lose the three points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>FIFA silence on sanction for errant South Africa a mystery<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN &ndash; FIFA&rsquo;s reticence to dock World Cup points from South Africa for using a defaulter in a March fixture is casting a cloud and creating confusion ahead of this week&rsquo;s potentially decisive round of African qualifiers. South Africa, which admits its mistake, erroneously fielded midfielder Tebeho Mokoena in a 2-0 home win over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/fifa-silence-on-sanction-for-errant-south-africa-a-mystery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;FIFA silence on sanction for errant South Africa a mystery&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}