{"id":65778,"date":"2018-05-25T10:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T08:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=65778"},"modified":"2018-05-25T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T08:23:53","slug":"manchester-united-scout-cosafa-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/25\/manchester-united-scout-cosafa-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United scout Cosafa bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League giants, Manchester United, have reportedly dispatched a scout to the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) Castle Cup in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><em>TimesLive <\/em>website of South Africa reported that United\u2019s Africa-based chief scout, Omar Sciolla, has arrived in the Rainbow Nation ahead of the tournament\u2019s kick off on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, which will take place in Polokwane, ends on June 9. Malawi\u2019s Flames will participate in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>TimesLive<\/em>, Sciolla, who is based in Senegal, also witnessed a Caf Champions League encounter between Horoya and Mamelodi Sundowns in Conakry, Guinea, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>United have in their books African player Eric Bailly from Cote d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, United have signed African players such as Eric Djemba-Djemba (Cameroon), Manucho (Angola) and Quintone Fortune (South Africa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League giants, Manchester United, have reportedly dispatched a scout to the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) Castle Cup in South Africa. TimesLive website of South Africa reported that United\u2019s Africa-based chief scout, Omar Sciolla, has arrived in the Rainbow Nation ahead of the tournament\u2019s kick off on Sunday. The tournament, which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65783,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65778\/revisions\/65783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}