{"id":186896,"date":"2024-12-19T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T11:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-devine-lunga-scoops-player-of-the-match-accolade-as-sundowns-beat-stellenbosch\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T11:37:53","slug":"zimbabwe-devine-lunga-scoops-player-of-the-match-accolade-as-sundowns-beat-stellenbosch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-devine-lunga-scoops-player-of-the-match-accolade-as-sundowns-beat-stellenbosch\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Devine Lunga Scoops Player of the Match Accolade, As Sundowns Beat Stellenbosch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Warriors defender Devine Lunga was voted player of the match on Wednesday night after helping Mamelodi Sundowns beat Stellenbosch 1-0 in the Betway Premiership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Wednesday&#8217;s was the first for Lunga under new club coach Miguel Cardoso who was marking his league debut since his appointment last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Zimbabwean left-back had a good outing which saw him helping his side to protect the team&#8217;s solitary goal scored by Iqraam Rayners in the 18th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Lunga could have walked away with an assist only&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412190392.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warriors defender Devine Lunga was voted player of the match on Wednesday night after helping Mamelodi Sundowns beat Stellenbosch 1-0 in the Betway Premiership. Wednesday&#8217;s was the first for Lunga under new club coach Miguel Cardoso who was marking his league debut since his appointment last week. The Zimbabwean left-back had a good outing which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[44926,258,256,5065,50215,44925,8778,257,7460,7093,254,32891,10390,4686,421],"class_list":["post-186896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accolade","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beat","tag-devine","tag-lunga","tag-match","tag-news","tag-player","tag-scoops","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stellenbosch","tag-sundowns","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}