{"id":30931,"date":"2020-12-05T21:24:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T19:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=30931"},"modified":"2020-12-05T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T19:24:49","slug":"ndiraya-happy-with-young-warriors-performance-against-amajita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ndiraya-happy-with-young-warriors-performance-against-amajita","title":{"rendered":"Ndiraya Happy With Young Warriors Performance Against Amajita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Young Warriors coach, Tonderai Ndiraya, has expressed satisfaction with his charges\u2019 performance in their drawn COSAFA Under-20 championship match against South Africa on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Young Warriors assembled only 9 days before the match at Wolfson Stadium, in Port Elizabeth, and twice went ahead but had to settle for a draw after Amajita equalised for a second time towards the end of the match. Said Ndiraya:<\/p>\n<p>This was our first competitive match, with a team assembled, and which only trained for 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am happy about the way they went about their business.<\/p>\n<p>We couldn\u2019t go pound-for-pound because of our fitness levels, so we sat back (to try and defend their lead).<\/p>\n<p>We conceded a soft goal, but I am glad for my boys, who were playing a strong team.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe scored through Panashe Mutimbanyoka and Lexington Mujokoro while South Africa got their goals from Oswin Appolis and Mohlala Makola.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier Group A match, Mozambique beat Lesotho 1-0. Zimbabwe takes on Mozambique this Saturday, in their second match, before playing Lesotho on 8 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Young Warriors coach, Tonderai Ndiraya, has expressed satisfaction with his charges\u2019 performance in their drawn COSAFA Under-20 championship match against South Africa on Thursday. The Young Warriors assembled only 9 days before the match at Wolfson Stadium, in Port Elizabeth, and twice went ahead but had to settle for a draw after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":30930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[1493,1891,1825,332,1555,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-30931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-sport","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-amajita","13":"tag-cosafa-under-20-championship","14":"tag-south-africa","15":"tag-tonderai-ndiraya","16":"tag-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>Ndiraya Happy With Young Warriors Performance Against Amajita - 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-happy-with-young-warriors-performance-against-amajita\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ndiraya Happy With Young Warriors Performance Against Amajita\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. 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