{"id":14593,"date":"2025-11-05T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwe-names-marinica-as-new-warriors-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:07","slug":"zimbabwe-names-marinica-as-new-warriors-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zimbabwe-names-marinica-as-new-warriors-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe names Marinica as new Warriors coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has appointed Romanian coach Marian \u2018Mario\u2019 Marinica as the new head coach of the Warriors, the country\u2019s senior men\u2019s national football team, on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marinica, 60, comes with more than 25 years of coaching experience and holds a UEFA Pro License. He has previously managed the national teams of Malawi and Liberia, bringing valuable international expertise to the role.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He will take over from Michael Nees, who was dismissed last month following a series of disappointing results. Marinica is set to begin work this month, with his first assignments being friendly matches against Qatar and Algeria as he starts preparations for the team\u2019s upcoming campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14594,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14593","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has appointed Romanian coach Marian \u2018Mario\u2019 Marinica as the new head coach of the Warriors","published_date":"2025-11-05 14:00:20","news_description":"Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has appointed Romanian coach Marian \u2018Mario\u2019 Marinica as the new head coach of the Warriors","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19187,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14593\/revisions\/19187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}