{"id":193442,"date":"2025-03-13T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-he-paved-the-way-for-us-to-the-premier-league-munetsi-salutes-benjani-mwaruwari\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:05:16","slug":"zimbabwe-he-paved-the-way-for-us-to-the-premier-league-munetsi-salutes-benjani-mwaruwari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-he-paved-the-way-for-us-to-the-premier-league-munetsi-salutes-benjani-mwaruwari\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: He Paved the Way for Us to the Premier League &#8211; Munetsi Salutes Benjani Mwaruwari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">After breaking Zimbabwe&#8217;s 14-year goal jinx on Saturday when he scored his first Premier Soccer League goal for Wolveshampton, Marshall Munetsi has saluted Benjani Mwaruwari for paving the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Munetsi&#8217;s equaliser against Everton saw him becoming the first Zimbabwean to score in the EPL since Benjani Mwaruwari in 2011 when he was playing for Blackburn Rovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">So important was Munetsi&#8217;s goal on Saturday that it earned his side a point against Everton in a match that ended as a one-all draw, taking&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503120393.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>After breaking Zimbabwe&#8217;s 14-year goal jinx on Saturday when he scored his first Premier Soccer League goal for Wolveshampton, Marshall Munetsi has saluted Benjani Mwaruwari for paving the way. Munetsi&#8217;s equaliser against Everton saw him becoming the first Zimbabwean to score in the EPL since Benjani Mwaruwari in 2011 when he was playing for Blackburn [&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":[258,256,50849,7027,45097,50850,257,37375,6996,8217,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benjani","tag-league","tag-munetsi","tag-mwaruwari","tag-news","tag-paved","tag-premier","tag-salutes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193442","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=193442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193442\/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=193442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}