{"id":40413,"date":"2025-11-02T13:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=40413"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:13:47","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignnakamba-praised-after-his-academy-lifted-the-under-17-boys-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/02\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignnakamba-praised-after-his-academy-lifted-the-under-17-boys-league-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakamba praised after his academy lifted the Under-17 Boys League title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-138461\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<p>\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"316\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nakamba-praised-after-his-academy-lifted-the-Under-17-Boys-League.png?resize=316%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"object-contain h-46 w-full rounded-lg  md:rounded-none md:rounded-lg wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nakamba-academy.png?w=707&amp;ssl=1 707w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nakamba-academy.png?resize=300%2C250&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nakamba-academy.png?resize=316%2C264&amp;ssl=1 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content custom-text-styles\">\n<p>Njube Spurs academy coach John Mabhayisa has praised Warriors captain Marvelous Nakamba for his support after winning the 2025 ZIFA Bulawayo Province Under-17 boys league.<\/p>\n<p>Nakamba has been sponsoring the academy since its formation as ways of giving the youths a kicking chance.<\/p>\n<p>The Njube Spurs project is part of Marvelous Nakamba\u2019s initiative to give back to his community.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors gaffer bankrolls the academy\u2019s expenses and also caters to players\u2019 welfare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, we want to thank Nakamba for what he is doing for these boys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know, funding is a challenge in junior football, but Marve makes it easy for us. He caters to players\u2019 welfare and everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to produce another Marve among these boys so as to make him proud because that is his dream,\u201d said Njebe Spurs coach John Mabhayisa.<\/p>\n<p>Marvelous Nakamba has been active in supporting grassroots football, in 2022, he hosted a national junior football tournament that unearthed Warriors Finland-based player Prosper Padera.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related Posts<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- \n\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t\t<span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in Local<\/span>\t<\/footer>\n\n -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Nakamba #praised #academy #lifted #Under17 #Boys #League #title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Njube Spurs academy coach John Mabhayisa has praised Warriors captain Marvelous Nakamba for his support after winning the 2025 ZIFA&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3523,3679,300,9177,4065,3429,292,6273],"class_list":["post-40413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-example-3","tag-academy","tag-boys","tag-league","tag-lifted","tag-nakamba","tag-praised","tag-title","tag-under17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40415,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413\/revisions\/40415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}