{"id":3160,"date":"2022-08-03T18:29:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2022-08-03T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T19:46:48","slug":"butholezwe-ncube-honored-at-amazulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=3160","title":{"rendered":"Butholezwe Ncube Honored At Amazulu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Zimbabwe Warriors and Amazulu midfieder Butholezwe Ncube has been awarded with the &#8216;Usuthu Spirit&#8217; award for his dedication and loyalty to the team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 30-year-old former Tsholotsho F.C star midfieder was presented with the award at Amazulu&#8217;s end of the season award ceremony on Wednesday.<\/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\">\ud83c\udf1f \ud835\udc07\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc18\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc11 \ud835\udc16\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc12 \ud83c\udf1f<br><br>USUTHU SPIRIT AWARD<br>&#8211; Butholezwe Ncube <br><br>TOP GOAL-SCORER<br>&#8211; Luvuyo Memela <br><br>MOST VALUED PLAYER<br>&#8211; Veli Mothwa <br><br>DDC TOP GOAL-SCORER<br>&#8211; Tebogo Masuku <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HebeUsuthu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HebeUsuthu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UsuthuTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UsuthuTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TXY00xVD5l\">pic.twitter.com\/TXY00xVD5l<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AmaZulu FC (@AmaZuluFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmaZuluFootball\/status\/1554796352042835969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Warriors midfieder endured a rough patch at Amazulu in the previous seasons mainly due to injury, featuring in only 16 league games during 2020\/21 season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimbabwean was rarely used in the previous season under coach Benni McCarthy but surprisingly survived a massive clearance that took place at Usuthu recently that saw the club offloading 15 players including those that featured regularly last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list included the likes of Luvuyo Memela, Tapelo Xoki, Augustine Mulenga and Xola Mlambo who were among the top players at Usuthu last season, but were all released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ncube joined Usuthu in 2016 from Matebeleland North based, Tsholotsho F. 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