{"id":216539,"date":"2025-12-13T10:07:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-munetsi-zemura-miss-out-on-afcon-team\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:07:54","slug":"zimbabwe-munetsi-zemura-miss-out-on-afcon-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-munetsi-zemura-miss-out-on-afcon-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Munetsi, Zemura Miss Out On Afcon Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Warriors head coach Mario &#8220;Marian&#8221; Marinica has named his squad for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with the glaring omissions of midfield anchor Marshall Munetsi and left-back Jordan Zemura drawing immediate debate among fans and analysts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Announced today, the squad blends Europe-based stars rising domestic talents and seasoned campaigners as the Warriors prepare for the continental showcase in Morocco in ten days time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The goalkeeping department features veteran Washington Arubi of Marumo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120038.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 head coach Mario &#8220;Marian&#8221; Marinica has named his squad for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with the glaring omissions of midfield anchor Marshall Munetsi and left-back Jordan Zemura drawing immediate debate among fans and analysts. Announced today, the squad blends Europe-based stars rising domestic talents and seasoned campaigners as the Warriors prepare for [&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":[9488,258,256,45097,257,254,7142,53124,4686,421],"class_list":["post-216539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-munetsi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-zemura","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216539","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=216539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216539\/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=216539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}