{"id":921,"date":"2019-01-03T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=921"},"modified":"2019-01-03T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:20:19","slug":"samanja-retires-gaki-and-mpelele-leaves-harare-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/sport\/samanja-retires-gaki-and-mpelele-leaves-harare-city","title":{"rendered":"Samanja retires, Gaki and Mpelele leaves Harare City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malvin Gaki and Pritchard Mpelele have left Harare City while\u00a0captain Tendai Samanja has\u00a0retired from playing football.<\/p>\n<p>Samanja will take up a coaching post at the club\u2019s developmental side, Sunshine Boys in Division Two. The 32-year-old helped Harare-based side win the Chibuku Super Cup in 2015 and 2017 and led the team to silver medals in 2014 and 2018 in the same competition. He joined the club in 2015 from Caps United.<\/p>\n<p>Gaki who arrived at City in 2017 from Triangle United did not renew his contract when it expired at the end of 2018. The striker was one of the most consistent players in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Mpelele who also joined the Harare City at the same time from Hwange was released from his contract together with other five players.<\/p>\n<p>These include Protasho Kabwe, Bright Chayambuka, Tinashe Balakasi, Grey Kufandada and Munyaradzi Sako.<\/p>\n<p>However, Harare Cityhave since added former Dynamos skipper Marshall Machazane, Milton Ncube of Caps United, Walter Mukanga (Ngezi Platinum) and Colins Mujuru (Aces)<\/p>\n<div id=\"ajdg_bnnrwidgets-20\" class=\"widget ajdg_bnnrwidgets \">\n<div class=\"apckejb-single apckejb-45\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malvin Gaki and Pritchard Mpelele have left Harare City while\u00a0captain Tendai Samanja has\u00a0retired from playing football. Samanja will take up a coaching post at the club\u2019s developmental side, Sunshine Boys in Division Two. The 32-year-old helped Harare-based side win the Chibuku Super Cup in 2015 and 2017 and led the team to silver medals in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[84,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-sport"},"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>Samanja retires, Gaki and Mpelele leaves Harare City - 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\/sport\/samanja-retires-gaki-and-mpelele-leaves-harare-city\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Samanja retires, Gaki and Mpelele leaves Harare City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Malvin Gaki and Pritchard Mpelele have left Harare City while\u00a0captain Tendai Samanja has\u00a0retired from playing football. 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