{"id":20149,"date":"2011-12-23T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/bucs-get-extended-break\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T09:36:07","slug":"bucs-get-extended-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/bucs-get-extended-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs get extended break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtnfootball.com\/content\/Isaac_Chansa_pirates~2.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Isaac Chansa will likely go to the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations with Zambia<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Orlando Pirates players have been given an extended break and will return to training on January 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The club confirmed this on Thursday, noting that the team had played 23 matches so far in the 2011\/12 season after winning both the MTN8 and Telkom Knockout competitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Many clubs will have their players back in the first week of January, but Bucs will give their players a few extra days off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">That will not be the case for the five players who have been called into the Bafana Bafana squad for the fixtures against Equatorial Guinea, Zambia and Ghana next month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Moeneeb Josephs, Siyabonga Sangweni, Andile Jali, Oupa Manyisa and Daine Klate will camp with the national side from January 2 until the final game against the Black Stars on January 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">It is unclear whether they will then be given some additional time off.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Isaac Chansa will likely go to the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations with Zambia Orlando Pirates players have been given an extended break and will return to training on January 9. The club confirmed this on Thursday, noting that the team had played 23 matches so far in the 2011\/12 season after winning both the MTN8 and Telkom Knockout competitions. Many clubs will have their players back in the first week of January, but Bucs will give their players a few extra days off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bucs get extended break - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/bucs-get-extended-break\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bucs get extended break - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Isaac Chansa will likely go to the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations with Zambia Orlando Pirates players have been given an extended break and will return to training on January 9. 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