{"id":228383,"date":"2026-03-24T13:54:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/zimbabwe-botswana-warriors-coach-marinica-targets-four-nations-tournament-to-build-future-squad\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:54:39","slug":"zimbabwe-botswana-warriors-coach-marinica-targets-four-nations-tournament-to-build-future-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/zimbabwe-botswana-warriors-coach-marinica-targets-four-nations-tournament-to-build-future-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\/Botswana: Warriors Coach Marinica Targets Four Nations Tournament to Build Future Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Warriors coach Marian Marinica says he will use the upcoming Four Nations Tournament as a platform to build a competitive squad for future assignments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Four Nations tournament is scheduled to run from March 28 to April 2 and will feature Zimbabwe, hosts Botswana, Malawi and Zambia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Marinica has, however, been dealt a major blow after an injury crisis forced the withdrawal of four key players, Knowledge Musona, Tawanda Maswanhise, Thandolwenkosi Ngwenya and Prince Dube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240287.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warriors coach Marian Marinica says he will use the upcoming Four Nations Tournament as a platform to build a competitive squad for future assignments. The Four Nations tournament is scheduled to run from March 28 to April 2 and will feature Zimbabwe, hosts Botswana, Malawi and Zambia. Marinica has, however, been dealt a major blow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,2462,6935,7346,5760,53991,4301,257,254,8984,7317,6966,10304,20539],"class_list":["post-228383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana-news","tag-build","tag-coach","tag-future","tag-marinica","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-targets","tag-tournament","tag-warriors","tag-zimbabwebotswana"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228383","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=228383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}