{"id":1742,"date":"2021-09-23T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2021-09-24T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T17:31:56","slug":"another-zim-teen-signs-pro-contract-with-an-english-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Another Zim Teen Signs Pro Contract With An English Side"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>England-based Zimbabwe teenage forward Jimiel Chikukwa has become the latest Zimbabwe youngster to sign a professional contract with a top English Side after joining Watford as a free agent. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 18-year-old joins the Hornets from Leeds United academy after impressing on trials scoring two goals, against Hull City and Crewe Alexandra&#8217;s Under 23s respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He becomes the latest Zimbabwe teen to sign a professional contract with an English top side after Leeds Academy teammate Ethan Kachosa (17) who recently signed a two year professional contract with English league one side Sunderland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kachosa and Chikukwa are both products of UK-based Zimbabwe coach Dyson Dzapasi&#8217;s Positive Youth Empowerment Soccer school which teams up with Leeds United to develop kids in the Yorkshire region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chikukwa left Leeds United in the summer following the expiry of his contract and has been on the radar of several top English clubs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highly rated forward has been in the Leeds United development structures for the past five years and was the leading top goal scorer for Leeds Under-18s with six goals from 14 matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on the club website, the 18-year-old said he is delighted to join the club .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted, I\u2019ve had to be really patient over the summer to get this done but I\u2019m just buzzing that it\u2019s happened now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He described himself as a ball poacher and &#8220;likes to beat a man&#8221;, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say I like to run in behind,\u201d Chikukwa said <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m one of those types of strikers, but also I\u2019m a bit of a poacher, so those balls in and around the six-yard box I\u2019m usually there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pacey, I like to get on the ball and show what I can do, I can beat a man.\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watford are back in the English Premier League after a one year absence, winning the Championship title on their first attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England-based Zimbabwe teenage forward Jimiel Chikukwa has become the latest Zimbabwe youngster to sign a professional contract with a top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1751,"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":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/FB_IMG_1632495057703.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}