{"id":44779,"date":"2021-08-09T19:37:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=44779"},"modified":"2021-08-09T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:01:56","slug":"caps-united-chairman-pays-tribute-to-club-legend-joe-mugabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/caps-united-chairman-pays-tribute-to-club-legend-joe-mugabe","title":{"rendered":"Caps United Chairman Pays Tribute To Club Legend Joe Mugabe"},"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>Caps United president Farai Jere said the club is \u201cdevastated\u201d following the death of club legend Joe \u201cKode\u201d Mugabe on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe died of cancer in the early hours of yesterday morning in Reading, England.<\/p>\n<p>The former midfielder, who relocated to the United Kingdom at the turn of the millennium, was just a few weeks shy of his 53rd birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Jere said the history of the club was dealt a big blow this year as Makepekepe continues to lose its stalwarts.<\/p>\n<p>Former Caps United chairman Shepherd Bwanya and former player and coach Anthony Kambani both died in January.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-midfielder Butler Masango, who played for Makepekepe in the late 1990s, passed away in May. Said, Jere:<\/p>\n<p>We are so devastated as the CAPS United family because Kode was a true legend who dedicated his career to the service of the club from a young age.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a sad year for the club. It\u2019s so sad we are mourning again, barely a month after we said our goodbyes to Steve Kwashi.<\/p>\n<p>We have lost a number of our club luminaries this year like Kambani, Bwanya, Butler, Steve and now Joe.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe was co-captain of CAPS United alongside Silver \u201cBhonzo\u201d Chigwenje when they won their first league championship, post-independence, in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>He was nominated Soccer Star of the Year finalist four times in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The former midfield kingpin was also the CAPS United Players\u2019 Player of the Season a record four times in 1993, 1994, 1998 and 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe played alongside star players like the late Cheche Billiat, Alois Bunjira, Stewart Murisa, Farai Mbidzo, Mpumelelo Dzowa, Frank Nyamukuta, Morgan Nkhatazo, Charles Yohane, Edelbert Dinha and Dumisani Mpofu.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his death, Mugabe was still involved in football development as chairman of the CAPS United Legends UK, a registered community organisation that is assisting in the growth of junior football in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife Jennifer and three kids \u2013 Irene, Ashley and Alvin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Caps United president Farai Jere said the club is \u201cdevastated\u201d following the death of club legend Joe \u201cKode\u201d Mugabe on Sunday morning. Mugabe died of cancer in the early hours of yesterday morning in Reading, England. The former midfielder, who relocated to the United Kingdom at the turn of the millennium, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[1493,2189,448,1900,5835,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-44779","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-caps-united","14":"tag-farai-jere","15":"tag-joe-mugabe","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>Caps United Chairman Pays Tribute To Club Legend Joe Mugabe - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Caps United president Farai Jere said the club is \u201cdevastated\u201d following the death of club legend Joe \u201cKode\u201d Mugabe on S ...\" \/>\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\/caps-united-chairman-pays-tribute-to-club-legend-joe-mugabe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caps United Chairman Pays Tribute To Club Legend Joe Mugabe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Caps United president Farai Jere said the club is \u201cdevastated\u201d following the death of club legend Joe \u201cKode\u201d Mugabe on S ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/caps-united-chairman-pays-tribute-to-club-legend-joe-mugabe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-09T17:37:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-09T17:01:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-61115f6ca12fa.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"402\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/caps-united-chairman-pays-tribute-to-club-legend-joe-mugabe\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/caps-united-chairman-pays-tribute-to-club-legend-joe-mugabe\",\"name\":\"Caps United Chairman Pays Tribute To Club Legend Joe Mugabe - 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