{"id":13285,"date":"2019-09-06T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13285"},"modified":"2019-09-06T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T11:05:15","slug":"mudimu-comments-on-his-first-game-as-warriors-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudimu-comments-on-his-first-game-as-warriors-captain","title":{"rendered":"Mudimu comments on his first game as Warriors captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alec_Mudimu\">Alec Mudimu<\/a> says it was an honour to lead the Warriors team for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Wales-based defender wore the arm-band in the World Cup qualifier against Somalia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a huge honour to captain my beloved country for the first time and hopefully for many more to come,\u201d Mudimu said on Twitter after the game.<\/p>\n<p>However, his first dance as the captain didn\u2019t go well as the team lost 1-0 to a side which is ranked third from bottom in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But the 24-year-old still believes they will bounce back in the second leg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have enough quality to bounce back and get that important win we very much need for our nation. So please let\u2019s ask we stick together and continue to encourage and support through out. The best is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The return fixture is scheduled for Tuesday in Harare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alec Mudimu says it was an honour to lead the Warriors team for the first time. The Wales-based defender wore the arm-band in the World Cup qualifier against Somalia on Thursday. \u201cIt was a huge honour to captain my beloved country for the first time and hopefully for many more to come,\u201d Mudimu said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[790,74,509],"class_list":{"0":"post-13285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-football-in-zimbabwe","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-warriors"},"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>Mudimu comments on his first game as Warriors captain - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alec Mudimu says it was an honour to lead the Warriors team for the first time.\" \/>\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\/mudimu-comments-on-his-first-game-as-warriors-captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mudimu comments on his first game as Warriors captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alec Mudimu says it was an honour to lead the Warriors team for the first time.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudimu-comments-on-his-first-game-as-warriors-captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-06T11:05:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/09\/Alec-Mudimu-AFCON-Zimbabwe.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"466\" \/>\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\/mudimu-comments-on-his-first-game-as-warriors-captain\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mudimu-comments-on-his-first-game-as-warriors-captain\",\"name\":\"Mudimu comments on his first game as Warriors captain - 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