{"id":1325,"date":"2021-06-07T03:18:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T03:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2021-06-07T06:41:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T06:41:26","slug":"arubi-wins-nedbank-cup-player-of-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Arubi Wins Nedbank Cup Player Of The Tournament Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Former Warriors goalkeeper Washington Arubi was voted the Nedbank Cup Player of the Tournament on Sunday, beating teammate Ndabayithethwa Ndlodlo and Mamelodi Sundowns forward Peter Shaulile for the award.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 35-year-old former Zimbabwe Warriors goalkeeper walked away with the R150 000 prize money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arubi finished the tournament with four clean sheets in five games after he led Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivandila to their first Nedbank cup victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PSLAwards2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PSLAwards2021<\/a><br><br>\u26bd\u2728\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udf89\u2728\u26bd<br><br>Nedbank Cup Player of the Tournament: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TM6JBfBgrt\">pic.twitter.com\/TM6JBfBgrt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Official PSL (@OfficialPSL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialPSL\/status\/1401609003537420288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was the only Zimbabwean player out of a pool of 18 players to grace the South African Premiership awards podium in a pre-recorded PSL Awards ceremony, which were held virtually, for the 2020\/21 season on Sunday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mamelodi Sundowns and Namibian forward Peter Shaulile was the big winner after scooping the Player of the season and Players Player awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benni McCarthy was voted coach of the season after guiding Amazulu to a second place finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arubi becomes the second Zimbabwean player to win the Nedbank cup player of the tournament award after former Mamelodi Sundowns hitman Nyasha Mushekwi who won it in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Warriors goalkeeper Washington Arubi was voted the Nedbank Cup Player of the Tournament on Sunday, beating teammate Ndabayithethwa Ndlodlo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1329,"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":[2,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/default-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325"}],"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=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}