{"id":2475,"date":"2022-01-11T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:50:38","slug":"zemura-arriving-tonight-update-on-musona-benyu-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=2475","title":{"rendered":"Zemura Arriving Tonight, Update On Musona &#038; Benyu Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Zimbabwe Warriors have received a big boost ahead of their second group B match against Malawi on the 14th of January at Kauokong stadium after the announcement of Zemura&#8217;s availability.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 22-year-old Bournemout rising star who is slowly becoming a household name in the Warriors squad after his outstanding performances in the four games that he has represented the national team so far- is expected to arrive tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warriors manager Wellington Mpandare confirmed the news to <em>soca263<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Yes, Zemura is on his way already and he is expected to arrive in Cameroon tonight, said Mpandare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zemura has been in self-Isolation in the UK since the coronavirus broke out at his club two weeks ago forcing him to miss Zimbabwe Warriors&#8217; first match against Senegal on Monday &#8211; where they agonizingly came close to book their first point in the opening match of the group stages of the competition &#8211; something they have never done in all their previous appearances, had it not been for that last minute penalty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Zemura is excited to finally joining the team as he confirmed on a twit in reply to ZIFA&#8217;s announcement of his arrival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to join the boys, and represent my Zimbabwe. Two important games to get out the group everything is possible,&#8221;  Zemura said. <\/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\">Can\u2019t wait to join the boys, and represent my Zimbabwe\u2764\ufe0f 2 important games to get out the group everything is possible. #263 \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\uddfc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/31UNgqxiEO\">https:\/\/t.co\/31UNgqxiEO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; J Z (@Jzemura3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jzemura3\/status\/1480822526800445441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His arrival is a big boost to the Warriors squad who now need to win the remainder two games against Malawi and Senegal to keep their hopes of progressing beyond the group stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Warriors manager Wellington Mpandare also gave an update on skipper Knowledge Musona and Iceland-based winger Kundai Benyu who were stretchered off the pitch against Senegal after suffering some knocks in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Knowledge Musona looks good and will be available for Malawi. Only Kundai Benyu is a worry,&#8221; said Mpandare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 24-year-old who was thrust in a five man midfield in Mapeza&#8217;s 3-5-2 Formation against Senegal had an outstanding performance before he was substituted for Thabani Kamusoko in the 71st minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musona followed in the 88th minutes stretchered off for Azam&#8217;s Never Tigere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe Warriors have received a big boost ahead of their second group B match against Malawi on the 14th of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2476,"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],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20220111_115831.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"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=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}