{"id":4697,"date":"2019-02-27T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2019-02-27T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:11:00","slug":"kundai-benyu-joins-swedish-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/kundai-benyu-joins-swedish-club","title":{"rendered":"Kundai Benyu joins Swedish club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe international Kundai Benyu has left Celtic and moved to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old midfielder joins Helsingborgs IF on a loan deal until January 31, 2020. He had struggled for game time at Celtic, making just one league start since his arrival in August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish club which got promoted into the top division last season confirmed the transfer on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHIF has agreed with Celtic FC for a loan transfer of midfielder Kundai Benyu. The loan runs until January 31, 2020,\u201d Helsingborgs said in a statement on their website.<\/p>\n<p>The player is happy with the move and has promised to make the best out of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like a good opportunity for me to continuously play A-team football at a high level,\u201d said Benyu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy teammate at Celtic, Mikael Lustig, told me that Helsingborg is a big club, and this was a good opportunity for me, so I wanted to come here from the moment I heard about the interest (from Helsingborgs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have heard that the club has good supporters so I look forward to impressing them and showing what I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The loan agreement has a clause which allows Helsingborg to extend the player\u2019s stay at the club when the current deal ends.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Benyu is reportedly among the foreign-based players that have been drafted into coach Tonderai Ndiraya\u2019s provisional national U23 squad that will play Mozambique in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe international Kundai Benyu has left Celtic and moved to Sweden. 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