{"id":43672,"date":"2021-07-17T17:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T15:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=43672"},"modified":"2021-07-17T16:20:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T14:20:57","slug":"young-warriors-midfielder-abubakar-moffat-joins-spanish-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/young-warriors-midfielder-abubakar-moffat-joins-spanish-club","title":{"rendered":"Young Warriors Midfielder, Abubakar Moffat, Joins Spanish Club"},"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>Zimbabwean born footballer Abubakar Moffat (23) has joined Spanish fifth-tier club CD Estepona.<\/p>\n<p>Moffat, an Aces Youth Academy product, moved to Spain three years ago where he played for V\u00e9lez CF and more recently FC Malaga City Academy before his recent switch.<\/p>\n<p>CD Estepona confirmed the transfer in a statement, saying Moffat will add steel in the team\u2019s midfield. The statement read:<\/p>\n<p>CD Estepona secures the services of Abubakar Moffat, better known sportingly as BAKA, becoming the fourth signing of Hugo D\u00edez\u2019s team for next season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old footballer from Zimbabwe works in the midfield position, he is a player with great physical power and very supportive in the defensive work of his team.<\/p>\n<p>BAKA comes from the M\u00e1laga City Academy, with this team they were promoted to the Division of Honor last season.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he has experience in the 3rd Division with V\u00e9lez CF, in the Vivar T\u00e9llez team he coincided with our sports director Lucas Cazorla who is the person who has bet the most for his signing.<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes after Moffat spent two weeks on a trial stint with Spanish fourth-tier club CD Ciudad de Lucena but didn\u2019t get a contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. 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CD Estepona confirmed the transfer in a statement, saying Moffat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[5544,1493,2189,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-43672","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-abubakar-moffat","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"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>Young Warriors Midfielder, Abubakar Moffat, Joins Spanish Club - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zimbabwean born footballer Abubakar Moffat (23) has joined Spanish fifth-tier club CD Estepona. 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