{"id":14088,"date":"2025-10-29T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/faz-grant-part-ways\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:44","slug":"faz-grant-part-ways","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/faz-grant-part-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"FAZ, Grant part ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In a Statement issued to the media this afternoon (Wednesday),FAZ General Secretary Machacha Shepande\u00a0 says both parties agreed to mutually separate to help chart a new way forward for the Chipolopolo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cThe Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has agreed to mutually separate with Zambia Senior Men\u2019s National Team coach Avram Grant. The two parties agreed to mutually separate with FAZ wishing\u00a0 Grant the best of luck in his future endeavours,\u201d Shepande says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cThe rest of the details will be communicated in due course. For now can only thank \u00a0Grant for his contribution to the Zambian game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A fortnight ago the Zambian government withdrew its funding to the Zambia National Soccer Team citing poor results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica\/Namuchana Namuchana&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14089,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14088","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has mutually parted ways with Zambia National Soccer Team Coach Avram Grant","published_date":"2025-10-29 00:00:00","news_description":"Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has mutually parted ways with Zambia National Soccer Team Coach Avram Grant","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14088","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\/14088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18909,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14088\/revisions\/18909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}