{"id":702,"date":"2021-01-11T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2021-01-12T03:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:51:40","slug":"darikwa-seeks-to-reignite-his-club-career-after-joining-wigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"DARIKWA SEEKS TO REIGNITE HIS CLUB CAREER AFTER JOINING WIGAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Zimbabwe Warrior&#8217;s &#8216;minister of defence&#8217; Tendayi Darikwa Is hoping to get his club career back on track after joining English League one side, Wigan Athletics on a short term deal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29-year-old overlapping right-back joins Wigan until the end of the season after a spell with Nottingham Forest in the English Championship League, where he played over 50 league games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darikwa spent the majority of the 2019-20 season on the side-lines due to injury and has been struggling to get game time ever since his recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimbabwe international was yet to feature for Forest this term, but played twice for Zimbabwe Warriors in the Africa Cup of Nations campaign and has maintained fitness with Forest&#8217;s Under 23 side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With over 200 games to his career, Darikwa is determined to get his club football back on track at Wigan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted, it\u2019s happened quite quickly,\u201d Darikwa told the club&#8217;s TV. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a Wigan Athletic player and I\u2019m delighted to be here and I can\u2019t wait to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve not played too much football in the last 18 months after a bad injury. But I\u2019m fit again and I can\u2019t wait to get on the pitch and start playing competitive games again,&#8221; said Darikwa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe Warrior&#8217;s &#8216;minister of defence&#8217; Tendayi Darikwa Is hoping to get his club career back on track after joining English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":707,"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\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210112_034409.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}