{"id":24810,"date":"2020-07-01T20:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=24810"},"modified":"2020-07-01T20:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:25:20","slug":"there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa","title":{"rendered":"There is no need to panic: Chidzambwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Zimbabwe:<\/p>\n<p>Legendary former Warriors coach Sunday \u2018Mhofu\u2019 Chidzambwa believes the postponement of the African Cup of Nations finals will not disadvantage the national team\u2019s performance at the showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>CAF announced yesterday that AFCON 2021 has been moved to January 2022 due to the effects of the Covid-19 crisis but Chidzambwa, the first ever coach to take the Warriors to AFCON and the only one to do so twice, insists this won\u2019t be a setback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe advantage is that the team has been together for quite some time, it must be three years now, and they really understand each other well,\u2019\u2019 said Chidzambwa. Age is still on the side for many of our players,\u201d he told The Herald.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the majority of the players, now, their average age is 25. The captain (Knowledge Musona), turned 30 last month so he will turning 32 that year (2022).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that even if the team regroups, more than a year after their last match, which was the qualifier against Zambia, the players will be able to do well,\u201d said Chidzambwa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery national team has been affected by the lockdown and that means no one has an advantage over the other. So, there is no need to panic or to think that, maybe, we will fail to qualify for the next AFCON.\u2019\u2019 added the retired coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Zimbabwe: Legendary former Warriors coach Sunday \u2018Mhofu\u2019 Chidzambwa believes the postponement of the African Cup of Nations finals will not disadvantage the national team\u2019s performance at the showpiece. CAF announced yesterday that AFCON 2021 has been moved to January 2022 due to the effects of the Covid-19 crisis but Chidzambwa, the first ever coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[790,644],"class_list":["post-24810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-zimbabwe","tag-young-warriors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>There is no need to panic: Chidzambwa - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe:Legendary former Warriors coach Sunday \u2018Mhofu\u2019 Chidzambwa believes the postponement of the African Cup of Nations finals will\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"There is no need to panic: Chidzambwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe:Legendary former Warriors coach Sunday \u2018Mhofu\u2019 Chidzambwa believes the postponement of the African Cup of Nations finals will\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-01T18:25:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/Sunday-Chidzambwa-1080x640.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"There is no need to panic: Chidzambwa\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-01T18:25:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa\"},\"wordCount\":229,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/Sunday-Chidzambwa-1080x640.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"football in Zimbabwe\",\"Young Warriors\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/there-is-no-need-to-panic-chidzambwa\",\"name\":\"There is no need to panic: Chidzambwa - 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