{"id":1082,"date":"2021-02-27T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2021-02-27T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T17:05:32","slug":"struggling-benyu-finds-new-home-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Struggling Benyu Finds New Home In Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><strong>English-born Zimbabwean midfielder Kundai Benyu has signed for Icelandic second division side Vestri \u00cdsafj\u00f6rdur a week after leaving English National League Side Wealdstone. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 23-year-old who was once touted as one of Zimbabwe&#8217;s brightest prospect in the English football after signing for Scottish giants Celtic from Aldershot Town loan spell in 2017, left Wealdstone after a mutual termination of his contract with the English fifth tier side a week ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Ipswich Town Academy product has featured in 15 games for Wealdstone before leaving for Iceland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benyu has been struggling to establish himself as a regular member at Celtics and was subsequently loaned to Oldham Athletic and later Helsingborg in Sweden without success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The England-born midfielder last played for Zimbabwe Warriors in 2017 when he made his debut, along with Tendayi Darikwa and Macauley Bonne, during a friendly match against Lesotho and Namibia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vestri competes in the Inkasso-deild karla league, which is the second highest professional level in the Icelandic football league system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are 7th on the log with 29 points from 20 games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English-born Zimbabwean midfielder Kundai Benyu has signed for Icelandic second division side Vestri \u00cdsafj\u00f6rdur a week after leaving English National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,13,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_20210227_190216.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}