{"id":16553,"date":"2019-12-10T19:17:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=16553"},"modified":"2019-12-10T19:17:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:17:40","slug":"fc-platinum-linked-with-2019-soccer-star-of-the-year-finalist-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fc-platinum-linked-with-2019-soccer-star-of-the-year-finalist-report","title":{"rendered":"FC Platinum linked with 2019 Soccer Star of the Year finalist \u2013 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Platinum are reportedly interested in signing 2019 Soccer Star of the Year finalist Ralph Kawondera as the Zimbabwe champions seek to reinforce their squad in January to save their Champions League campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Kawondera\u2019s contract with Triangle United is set to expire at the end of this year, and the midfielder is yet to renew it.<\/p>\n<p>According to NewsDay, the Platinum Boys want to seize that opportunity and sign him as a free agent. They have also identified some players whom they want to bring on board at the start of the year to fill the void left by some key stars who left the club in the mid-season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F.C._Platinum\">FC Platinum<\/a> find themselves bottom of Group B after losing their first two matches to Al Hilal of Sudan (1-2) and Saturday\u2019s 0-3 home loss to Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Platinum are reportedly interested in signing 2019 Soccer Star of the Year finalist Ralph Kawondera as the Zimbabwe champions seek to reinforce their squad in January to save their Champions League campaign. Kawondera\u2019s contract with Triangle United is set to expire at the end of this year, and the midfielder is yet to renew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[417,810],"class_list":{"0":"post-16553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-fc-platinum","10":"tag-sports-in-zimbabwe"},"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>FC Platinum linked with 2019 Soccer Star of the Year finalist \u2013 Report - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FC Platinum are reportedly interested in signing 2019 Soccer Star of the Year finalist Ralph Kawondera as the Zimbabwe champions seek to reinforce\" \/>\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\/fc-platinum-linked-with-2019-soccer-star-of-the-year-finalist-report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FC Platinum linked with 2019 Soccer Star of the Year finalist \u2013 Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FC Platinum are reportedly interested in signing 2019 Soccer Star of the Year finalist Ralph Kawondera as the Zimbabwe champions seek to reinforce\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fc-platinum-linked-with-2019-soccer-star-of-the-year-finalist-report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-10T17:17:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2019\/12\/Ball-on-pitch-office.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"670\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"335\" \/>\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\/fc-platinum-linked-with-2019-soccer-star-of-the-year-finalist-report\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fc-platinum-linked-with-2019-soccer-star-of-the-year-finalist-report\",\"name\":\"FC Platinum linked with 2019 Soccer Star of the Year finalist \u2013 Report - 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