{"id":13998,"date":"2025-10-28T14:25:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/co-coach-excited-as-chiefs-advance-to-caf-confederation-cup-group-stages\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:41","slug":"co-coach-excited-as-chiefs-advance-to-caf-confederation-cup-group-stages","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/co-coach-excited-as-chiefs-advance-to-caf-confederation-cup-group-stages\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-coach excited as Chiefs advance to CAF Confederation Cup group stages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Kaizer Chiefs co-coach Cedric Kaze says he is relishing the challenge ahead as Amakhosi prepare for a tough field in the CAF Confederation Cup group stages.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Chiefs booked their spot in the lucrative phase of the competition after defeating the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s AS Simba 3-1 at the Dobsonville Stadium on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The group stage draw will take place in Johannesburg next Monday, with formidable clubs like Wydad Casablanca, Zamalek, USM Alger, CR Belouizdad, Stellenbosch FC and Azam FC all in contention.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Kaze says the moment still feels surreal. \u201cActually, I believe that it\u2019s a tremendous moment. Maybe I haven\u2019t realised it yet, and tomorrow I\u2019ll wake up and realise what we have done. I am very happy for the fans as they have struggled to have joy,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13836,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13998","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Chiefs booked their spot in the lucrative phase of the competition after defeating the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s AS Simba 3-1.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Chiefs booked their spot in the lucrative phase of the competition after defeating the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s AS Simba 3-1.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18860,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13998\/revisions\/18860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}