{"id":935,"date":"2022-06-21T08:48:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T08:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=935"},"modified":"2022-06-21T08:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T08:48:28","slug":"new-coach-for-nakamba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"New coach for Nakamba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 November 2021<br>Jeremiah Harrison<br>Sports reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe International footballer, Marvelous Nakamba will return to his club Aston Villa from national duty with Zimbabwe to a new coach after the the Blue Army appointed former Liverpool legend, Steven Gerrard as their new manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerrard replaces out of sorts Dean Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will happen next for the Warriors midfielder as Gerrard lands at Villa Park?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is a question being asked by Nakamba&#8217;s fans countrywide all over the social media platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend Aston Villa board sacked Smith who failed to produce good results for the team, he lost five concecutive games in the top flight English Premier League .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith left Aston Villa on the 16th place in the premier league table acquiring only ten points from eleven outings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aston Villa lost to Tottenham, Wolves, Asernal, Westharm before losing to Southampton before the international break, this resulted in the sacking of Smith from the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith played a role in bringing the Warriors defensive midfielder from the Belgian side Club Brugge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Aston Villa head coach Dean Smith despite bringing Nakamba to Villa Park he has been highly criticised by the player&#8217;s fans for changing him from his original position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aston Villa last won a match at Old Trafford in September against Manchester United by a goal to nil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerrard quit at Rangers Glasgow in the Scottish Premiership before returning back to the English Premier League over the international break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerrard had a successful start in the Scottish Premiership as Rangers are on top of the table with 30 points from 13 matches having lost only one match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DUiXsj7mMmn3dWVgEhDJLt\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Aston Villa is a club with a rich history and tradition and I am immensely proud to become its new head coach,&#8221; Gerrard said.<br>\u2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 November 2021Jeremiah HarrisonSports reporter Zimbabwe International footballer, Marvelous Nakamba will return to his club Aston Villa from national duty with Zimbabwe to a new coach after the the Blue&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}