{"id":28867,"date":"2020-10-13T21:34:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=28867"},"modified":"2020-10-13T21:34:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:34:36","slug":"warriors-team-manager-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/warriors-team-manager-named","title":{"rendered":"Warriors team manager named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Football Association have appointed a team manager for the country\u2019s senior men\u2019s national soccer team on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p>The position has been vacant since it was dissolved in January but former manager Wellington Mpandare has retained his post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has appointed Mr Wellington Mpandare as the General Manager for all national teams on a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe position comes with huge responsibilities which the board felt match the experience possessed by Mpandare, who has served in almost similar capacity in the past. Mpandare was the team manager for the senior men\u2019s team when the Warriors qualified for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, and he was also in the same position when the locally based Warriors secured a place at the 2021 African Nations Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from the usual responsibilities of the team manager of the Warriors, Mpandare will also be responsible for all logistical and welfare issues for all other national teams. He will work hand in glove with team managers of the other teams to improve the organisational aspects around national team games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to wish Mpandare all the best in his new secretariat position which teams him up with a dedicated group which has been doing some of the duties he will assume. The executive committee has great faith in his ability to execute his duties well to support the association\u2019s long term goals,\u201d announced ZIFA via a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Football Association have appointed a team manager for the country\u2019s senior men\u2019s national soccer team on a permanent basis. The position has been vacant since it was dissolved in January but former manager Wellington Mpandare has retained his post. \u201cThe Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has appointed Mr Wellington Mpandare as the General Manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[790,644],"class_list":{"0":"post-28867","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-young-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>Warriors team manager named - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Zimbabwe Football Association have appointed a team manager for the country\u2019s senior men\u2019s national soccer team\" \/>\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\/warriors-team-manager-named\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Warriors team manager named\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Zimbabwe Football Association have appointed a team manager for the country\u2019s senior men\u2019s national soccer team\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/warriors-team-manager-named\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-13T19:34:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/80A36CCF-8146-4A76-9B15-986522FE5476-921x640-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"921\" \/>\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\/warriors-team-manager-named\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/warriors-team-manager-named\",\"name\":\"Warriors team manager named - 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