{"id":3314,"date":"2022-08-29T01:09:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T01:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2022-08-29T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:04:58","slug":"shumaira-mheuka-wins-striker-of-the-tournament-in-a-youth-cup-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"Shumaira Mheuka Wins Striker Of The Tournament In 2022 Euro Youth Cup In Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Shumaira Mheuka began his career at Chelsea on a good note after impressing at 2022 Euro Youth Cup tournament hosted in Germany over the weekend &#8211; where he was awarded with the &#8216;Striker of the tournament&#8217; award after emerging as the top scorer. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 14-year-old fast paced forward who joined Chelsea in July from Brighton Hove Albion, scored four goals in the tournament to win the striker of the tournament award.<\/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\">Shumaira Mheuka (07, CF) from Chelsea FC won &quot;Striker of the Tournement&quot;.<br><br>Joined Chelsea just recently from Brighton. Physically already biologically around 19, determined &amp; intelligent on the pitch and despite his height quite technical. Agility\/Pace also alright. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xus8LyIU9b\">https:\/\/t.co\/xus8LyIU9b<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A1CWPYJcwA\">pic.twitter.com\/A1CWPYJcwA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ScoutingGermany (@ScoutingGermany) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScoutingGermany\/status\/1563908983517315073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mheuka, who three days ago was in Italy with England U16s, grabbed his first goal of the tournament in Chelsea&#8217;s 2-0 win against Union Berlin before bagging his second in 2-2 draw against Bayern Munich on the 27th of August as the team went on to reach the semi-finals along with FC Bayern, Benfica and GNK Dinamo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chelsea ended up finishing third after a narrow 1-0 semi-final defeat to Benfica, before Mheuka scored both goals in 2-1 third place playoff win against Bayern to complete his four goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bayern Munich&#8217;s Jussef Nasrawe won Player of the Tournement award for the Euro Youth Cup U16, which also featured Dinamo Zagreb and Juventus Turin &#8211; with the former winning the tournament after beating Benfica in the finals. Bayern finished 4th with a lot of momentum against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having born in England to Zimbabwean parents, the highly rated forward is also eligible to play for the Warriors despite representing the Three lions at youth level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shim is the son of former Zimbabwe Saints and Gunners midfielder Malcolm Mheuka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>*Image credit to @scoutingGermany<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shumaira Mheuka began his career at Chelsea on a good note after impressing at 2022 Euro Youth Cup tournament hosted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3316,"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\/08\/IMG_20220828_193316.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314"}],"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=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}