{"id":36610,"date":"2021-03-14T21:01:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=36610"},"modified":"2021-03-14T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T17:23:08","slug":"only-one-player-has-joined-warriors-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-one-player-has-joined-warriors-camp","title":{"rendered":"Only One Player Has Joined Warriors Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Warriors training camp ahead of two Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers later this month started on a low note with Highlanders goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda the lone figure at the squad hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors technical team initially named a 38-man provisional squad for the matches against Botswana and Zambia but several key players won\u2019t make it due to injury or travel restrictions occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Warriors manager Wellington Mpandare has however not lost hope of securing the release of some of the European-based stars. He said:<\/p>\n<p>We keep our fingers crossed and continue to have high hopes that those England-based players and Munetsi will be released for the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>We got into camp yesterday, and only Ariel Sibanda has joined camp and we expect more players to start trooping into the camp next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>We are confident of all the players coming in next Sunday as we have already sent in their air tickets to travel to Zimbabwe for the two fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>We have three more players on standby, these are Kelvin Madzongwe, Ralph Kawondera and Qadar Amini.<\/p>\n<p>If you are to include these players and those we have added in the past weeks we still remain with 25 players to do duty for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Khama Billiat, Prince Dube and England-based Marvelous Nakamba and Tendayi Darikwa are some of the key players who will miss the two games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Warriors training camp ahead of two Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers later this month started on a low note with Highlanders goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda the lone figure at the squad hotel. The Warriors technical team initially named a 38-man provisional squad for the matches against Botswana and Zambia but several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[378,1493,2189,3182,1688,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-36610","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-afcon","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-ariel-sibanda","15":"tag-the-warriors","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>Only One Player Has Joined Warriors Camp - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Warriors training camp ahead of two Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers later this month started on a low note ...\" \/>\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\/only-one-player-has-joined-warriors-camp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Only One Player Has Joined Warriors Camp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Warriors training camp ahead of two Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers later this month started on a low note ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-one-player-has-joined-warriors-camp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-14T19:01:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-03-14T17:23:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-604e465432667.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"766\" \/>\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\/only-one-player-has-joined-warriors-camp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-one-player-has-joined-warriors-camp\",\"name\":\"Only One Player Has Joined Warriors Camp - 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