{"id":4761,"date":"2025-10-23T12:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swazidailynews.com\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:07:47","slug":"edwin-blow-for-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/4761\/sports\/soccer\/edwin-blow-for-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin blow for Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Sibusiso Masilela<\/p>\n<p>A major blow for Royal Leopard<\/p>\n<p>The local CAF Confederation cup envoys will be without the services of head coach Edwin Matsebula in their next continental assignment.<br \/><br \/>Matsebula will miss the crucial return leg against Maniema Union on Saturday at the Somhlolo National Stadium.<br \/><br \/>The former National Under 17 mentor is serving a one-match suspension following his red card during the first leg match played on October 18, 2025, in Kinshasa.<br \/><br \/>Matsebula affirmed the news when contacted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4767\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4767\" src=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Leopard-coach-Edwin-Matsebula-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leopard coach Edwin Matsebula<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><br \/><br \/>\u201cI won&#8217;t sit on the bench during the return leg due to suspension. I have faith in my technical bench that they will do the job diligently in my absence,\u201d he said.<br \/><br \/>The Ingwenyama Cup champions need a goalless draw to advance to the group stages following the 1-all draw during the first leg encounter.<br \/><br \/>The police side stands to pocket over E7 million they reach the group stages of the continent&#8217;s second premier club competition.<br \/><br \/>\u2018Ingwemabalabala\u2019 last achieved the same feat during the 2022 edition.<br \/><br \/>Leopard knocked out Namibian side Young African in the preliminary round.<br \/><br \/>Maniema will arrive in the country on Thursday (October 23,2025) through the King Mswati III international airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Sibusiso Masilela A major blow for Royal Leopard The local CAF Confederation cup envoys will be without&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,43],"tags":[46,39,73,58,53,68],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-entertainment","tag-eswatini","tag-national","tag-soccer","tag-sport","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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