{"id":38061,"date":"2021-04-07T18:50:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=38061"},"modified":"2021-04-07T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T15:39:56","slug":"logarusic-blocks-warriors-stars-on-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/logarusic-blocks-warriors-stars-on-whatsapp","title":{"rendered":"Logaru\u0161i\u0107 Blocks Warriors Stars On WhatsApp"},"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>Warriors coach Zdravko \u2018Loga\u2019 Logaru\u0161i\u0107 said he has blocked the European-based stars on WhatsApp who ignored his international call-ups before qualifying for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Logarusic said since Zimbabwe secured a place at the 2021 AFCON finals, some of the players based abroad have been trying to reach out to him through the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA).<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old Croat asserted that he will not allow players to choose the games they want to play in. Said Loga:<\/p>\n<p>The first time when I called up (international) players they ignored us, now it\u2019s a different story (since qualifying for Afcon) but now my number is blocked.<\/p>\n<p>We will see how things go but we can\u2019t afford someone to play a game and choose when he wants to play next or simply ignore us (Zifa).<\/p>\n<p>I could not allow this, I must respect the country that gave me a job and nobody can play with this country and choose games.<\/p>\n<p>When I called those players in Europe, most of them ignored me, not each time they are calling and they can\u2019t reach me \u2014 but they are giving information (to Zifa) saying they can\u2019t reach the coach.<\/p>\n<p>Loga went on to reveal that several players in the top two tiers of English football have reached out about the possibility of representing Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Warriors coach Zdravko \u2018Loga\u2019 Logaru\u0161i\u0107 said he has blocked the European-based stars on WhatsApp who ignored his international call-ups before qualifying for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. Logarusic said since Zimbabwe secured a place at the 2021 AFCON finals, some of the players based abroad have been trying to reach out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1688,509,2090,2022,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-38061","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-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-the-warriors","14":"tag-warriors","15":"tag-zdravko-loga-logarusic","16":"tag-zdravko-logarusic","17":"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>Logaru\u0161i\u0107 Blocks Warriors Stars On WhatsApp - 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