{"id":24729,"date":"2020-06-26T20:50:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T18:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=24729"},"modified":"2020-06-26T20:50:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T18:50:56","slug":"mabika-bemoans-the-neglecting-of-football-legends-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mabika-bemoans-the-neglecting-of-football-legends-in-zimbabwe","title":{"rendered":"Mabika bemoans the neglecting of football legends in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football commentator and stauch Warriors fan Charles \u2018CNN\u2019 Mabika has shown displeasure over the manner in which ZIFA casts a blind eye on legends of the game in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Mabika\u2019s comments come in the wake of the untimely death of Dynamos assistant coach Biggie Zuze, who passed away in Harare yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in South Africa and European countries where legends of the game are honored through football matches, there is nothing like that in Zimbabwe and Mabika believes the country\u2019s football governing body ZIFA is not doing enough in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will keep on saying it until someone at Zifa finally listens and acts . . . why cant we have an annual Legends Challenge Cup tournament as a tribute to all our LIVING and FALLEN soccer legends?,\u201d wrote the broadcaster on his Twitter handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football commentator and stauch Warriors fan Charles \u2018CNN\u2019 Mabika has shown displeasure over the manner in which ZIFA casts a blind eye on legends of the game in Zimbabwe. Mabika\u2019s comments come in the wake of the untimely death of Dynamos assistant coach Biggie Zuze, who passed away in Harare yesterday. Unlike in South Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":24730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[790,810,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-24729","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-in-zimbabwe","11":"tag-zifa"},"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>Mabika bemoans the neglecting of football legends in Zimbabwe - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Football commentator and stauch Warriors fan Charles \u2018CNN\u2019 Mabika has shown displeasure over the manner in which ZIFA casts a blind\" \/>\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\/mabika-bemoans-the-neglecting-of-football-legends-in-zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mabika bemoans the neglecting of football legends in Zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Football commentator and stauch Warriors fan Charles \u2018CNN\u2019 Mabika has shown displeasure over the manner in which ZIFA casts a blind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mabika-bemoans-the-neglecting-of-football-legends-in-zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-26T18:50:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/06\/0CB8CFA7-799E-40FE-AE69-35994C5AD5F2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"420\" \/>\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\/mabika-bemoans-the-neglecting-of-football-legends-in-zimbabwe\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mabika-bemoans-the-neglecting-of-football-legends-in-zimbabwe\",\"name\":\"Mabika bemoans the neglecting of football legends in Zimbabwe - 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