{"id":1441,"date":"2021-07-01T08:47:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2021-07-01T09:10:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T09:10:04","slug":"darikwa-extends-latics-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Darikwa Extends Latics Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Zimbabwe Warriors defender Tendayi Darikwa has signed a new deal at Wigan Athletic until summer 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29-year-old right-back told the the official club website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted to be back here at the Football Club,\u201d Darikwa said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really enjoyed my time during the second half of last season when I joined. We\u2019ve been speaking for a few weeks now, and I can\u2019t wait to get going again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really grateful to the manager for bringing me in, and giving me the opportunity to play football matches. Hopefully, I can continue that next season and we can be successful together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darikwa joined Latics in January following his departure from English Championship side Nottingham Forest, making over 50 appearances for the Club. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimbabwe international played a pivotal role in helping Latics&#8217; survive relegation threat after arriving at the club in the second half of the 2020-21 League One season and made 26 appearances for Leam Richardson\u2019s side. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimbabwean has previously worked with manager Richardson at Chesterfield at the start of his career before moving on to join Burnley and Nottingham Forest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe Warriors defender Tendayi Darikwa has signed a new deal at Wigan Athletic until summer 2023. The 29-year-old right-back told<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1443,"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\/07\/20210701_103005.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441"}],"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=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}