{"id":205386,"date":"2025-08-24T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-fifa-president-infantino-pays-tribute-to-late-striker-tendai-ndoro\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:34:05","slug":"zimbabwe-fifa-president-infantino-pays-tribute-to-late-striker-tendai-ndoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-fifa-president-infantino-pays-tribute-to-late-striker-tendai-ndoro\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: FIFA President Infantino Pays Tribute to Late Striker Tendai Ndoro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">FIFA President Gianni Infantino has paid tribute to former Warriors striker Tendai Ndoro who passed away this week describing him as a legend whose influence on African football will not be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a condolence message addressed to Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Nqobile Magwizi on Thursday, Infantino hailed Ndoro&#8217;s &#8220;talent, resilience, and inspiration to many young footballers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;I would like to express my sincerest and heartfelt condolences on the passing of former&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508220176.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>FIFA President Gianni Infantino has paid tribute to former Warriors striker Tendai Ndoro who passed away this week describing him as a legend whose influence on African football will not be forgotten. In a condolence message addressed to Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Nqobile Magwizi on Thursday, Infantino hailed Ndoro&#8217;s &#8220;talent, resilience, and inspiration to [&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":[258,256,9109,36990,8262,52191,257,7223,2450,254,23357,13177,10225,4686,421],"class_list":["post-205386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fifa","tag-infantino","tag-late","tag-ndoro","tag-news","tag-pays","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-striker","tag-tendai","tag-tribute","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205386","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=205386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205386\/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=205386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}