{"id":192468,"date":"2025-02-28T06:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T04:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-how-mablanyo-transformed-wolves-star-munetsi-into-a-midfielder\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T06:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T04:28:02","slug":"zimbabwe-how-mablanyo-transformed-wolves-star-munetsi-into-a-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-how-mablanyo-transformed-wolves-star-munetsi-into-a-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: How Mablanyo Transformed Wolves Star Munetsi Into a Midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Years back, Dynamos coach Lloyd &#8220;Mablanyo&#8221; Chigowe had a chance to coach Marshall Munetsi in the men&#8217;s Under 17 national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;I got to know Munetsi when I was coach for Zimbabwe under 17, we got him from Ali Sundowns in Mabvuku.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;By then he was just a defender, playing as a centre back,&#8221; Mablanyo recalled in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Having been impressed by Munetsi in national team colours, Mablanyo then signed him at Blue Rangers, a division one side he was leading back then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">&#8220;When I formed Blue Rangers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502270432.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>Years back, Dynamos coach Lloyd &#8220;Mablanyo&#8221; Chigowe had a chance to coach Marshall Munetsi in the men&#8217;s Under 17 national team. &#8220;I got to know Munetsi when I was coach for Zimbabwe under 17, we got him from Ali Sundowns in Mabvuku. &#8220;By then he was just a defender, playing as a centre back,&#8221; Mablanyo [&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":[258,256,50751,4371,45097,257,254,10128,9572,24941,4686,421],"class_list":["post-192468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-mablanyo","tag-midfielder","tag-munetsi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-star","tag-transformed","tag-wolves","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192468","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=192468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192468\/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=192468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}