{"id":12803,"date":"2025-04-05T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zambias-womens-national-team-withdraw-four-us-based-players-for-china-trip\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:15:08","slug":"zambias-womens-national-team-withdraw-four-us-based-players-for-china-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zambias-womens-national-team-withdraw-four-us-based-players-for-china-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia&#8217;s women&#8217;s national team withdraw four US-based players for China trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since taking office for the second time, Trump has signed an executive order to draft a list of countries that will mean a partial or full suspension on visitors from some nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is unclear if China is on the proposed list, but non-American residents have experienced increased difficulty in re-entering the country in recent months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Faz said it was in the &#8220;best interest&#8221; of the US-based players not to make the trip. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After working through the process instigated by recently introduced measures it was decided that it is in the best interest of our players to skip this assignment,&#8221; Faz general secretary Reuben Kamanga said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They will definitely be available for future assignments as they were for the last window when we played Malawi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zambia face Thailand on 5 April before taking on either hosts China or Uzbekistan on 8 April. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp315ppdy10o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since taking office for the second time, Trump has signed an executive order to draft a list of countries that will mean a partial or full suspension on visitors from some nations. It is unclear if China is on the proposed list, but non-American residents have experienced increased difficulty in re-entering the country in recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12805,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions\/12805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}