{"id":3056,"date":"2019-02-03T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T12:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2019-02-03T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T12:01:31","slug":"ndiraya-still-young-warriors-coach-gwesela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ndiraya-still-young-warriors-coach-gwesela","title":{"rendered":"Ndiraya still Young Warriors coach: Gwesela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZIFA spokesperson Xolisani Gwesela says Tonderai Ndiraya is the national U23 team coach despite the reversal of his appointment as the Warriors\u2019 assistant coach last month.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ajdg_bnnrwidgets-19\" class=\"widget ajdg_bnnrwidgets \">\n<div class=\"apckejb-single apckejb-45\">\n<p>Suspended Zifa Vice President Gift Banda had named Ndiraya as the new assistant to Sunday Chidzambwa as well as the new Young Warriors mentor, but the decision was reversed a week later.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Sunday Mail, Gwesele cleared the air and said that the former Ngezi Platinum gaffer remains U23s coach, but he is no longer part of the national team set-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNdiraya is the Under 23 coach,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was only reversed were national team appointments, Tonderai Ndiraya remains the U-23 coach, but he is no longer part of the senior national team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Zifa technical director Wilson Mutekede says there is no clarification as to whether Ndiraya would continue being the Young Warriors gaffer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the reversal of the appointments we are still waiting to hear from the bosses on who is in charge of all the junior teams and will announce once the appointments are made,\u201d said Mutekede.<\/p>\n<p>The Young Warriors will be in action in March when they play Mozambique in the second round of the Afcon U-23 qualifiers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ajdg_bnnrwidgets-20\" class=\"widget ajdg_bnnrwidgets \">\n<div class=\"apckejb-single apckejb-45\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZIFA spokesperson Xolisani Gwesela says Tonderai Ndiraya is the national U23 team coach despite the reversal of his appointment as the Warriors\u2019 assistant coach last month. Suspended Zifa Vice President Gift Banda had named Ndiraya as the new assistant to Sunday Chidzambwa as well as the new Young Warriors mentor, but the decision was reversed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[84,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-3056","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","10":"tag-sport"},"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>Ndiraya still Young Warriors coach: Gwesela - 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\/ndiraya-still-young-warriors-coach-gwesela\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ndiraya still Young Warriors coach: Gwesela\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ZIFA spokesperson Xolisani Gwesela says Tonderai Ndiraya is the national U23 team coach despite the reversal of his appointment as the Warriors\u2019 assistant coach last month. 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