{"id":10041,"date":"2019-06-13T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=10041"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:37:14","slug":"chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi","title":{"rendered":"Chidzambwa is like a father: Munetsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France-bound Marshall Munetsi has described Warriors coach Sunday Chidzambwa as a father-figure who understands his players.<\/p>\n<p>The utility player who recently completed a move to Ligue 1 side Stade de Reims from Orlando Pirates is part of the national team squad that will play at the 2019 Afcon in Egypt from June 21.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with NewsDay, Munetsi said: \u201cCoach Sunday is a father figure first of all. He takes care of everyone, and not looking at where you come from or your background.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a person who talks to players personally, trying to improve our game and giving us the platform to play. He gave me this opportunity to play for the national team, and I have done my best not to let him down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Munetsi believes the experience of the coach will help the team go beyond the group stages for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a coach who has the experience, who has qualified for the Afcon before, and he is the coach that knows how to defend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a coach that knows how to put a proper structure, so we have a balanced team this time around, and we know what we have to rectify from what happened in the previous tournament,\u201d the 22-year-old added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France-bound Marshall Munetsi has described Warriors coach Sunday Chidzambwa as a father-figure who understands his players. The utility player who recently completed a move to Ligue 1 side Stade de Reims from Orlando Pirates is part of the national team squad that will play at the 2019 Afcon in Egypt from June 21. In an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[378,434,74,349],"class_list":{"0":"post-10041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-afcon","10":"tag-players","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tournament"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chidzambwa is like a father: Munetsi - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chidzambwa is like a father: Munetsi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"France-bound Marshall Munetsi has described Warriors coach Sunday Chidzambwa as a father-figure who understands his players. The utility player who recently completed a move to Ligue 1 side Stade de Reims from Orlando Pirates is part of the national team squad that will play at the 2019 Afcon in Egypt from June 21. In an [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-13T15:37:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/06\/Marshall-Munetsi-PA-1024x640.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi\",\"name\":\"Chidzambwa is like a father: Munetsi - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/06\/Marshall-Munetsi-PA-1024x640.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-13T15:37:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-13T15:37:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/06\/Marshall-Munetsi-PA-1024x640.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/06\/Marshall-Munetsi-PA-1024x640.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":640},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Chidzambwa is like a father: Munetsi\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Chidzambwa is like a father: Munetsi - zimbabwe","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Chidzambwa is like a father: Munetsi","og_description":"France-bound Marshall Munetsi has described Warriors coach Sunday Chidzambwa as a father-figure who understands his players. The utility player who recently completed a move to Ligue 1 side Stade de Reims from Orlando Pirates is part of the national team squad that will play at the 2019 Afcon in Egypt from June 21. In an [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2019-06-13T15:37:14+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":640,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/06\/Marshall-Munetsi-PA-1024x640.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi","name":"Chidzambwa is like a father: Munetsi - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/06\/Marshall-Munetsi-PA-1024x640.jpg","datePublished":"2019-06-13T15:37:14+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-13T15:37:14+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/06\/Marshall-Munetsi-PA-1024x640.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/06\/Marshall-Munetsi-PA-1024x640.jpg","width":1024,"height":640},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chidzambwa-is-like-a-father-munetsi#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Chidzambwa is like a father: Munetsi"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}