Zimbabwe have a new head coach in charge, with Romanian Mario Marinica having been appointed in November to replace Michael Nees, having previously been in charge of Malawi and Liberia.<\/p>\n
He has a number of England-based players in his squad, including Wolves midfielder Tawanda Chirewa, Sheffield Wednesday’s Sean Fusire, Andy Rinomhota of Reading and Plymouth Argyle defender Brendan Galloway.<\/p>\n
For Bonne, though, it is a big step up from his most recent domestic appearance as a substitute in Maldon & Tiptree’s 1-0 Isthmian League North Division win at Redbridge on 29 November in front of a crowd of 152 people. <\/p>\n
“Someone needs to get the movie rights to this because it will sell millions at the box office, I’m telling you,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s the story of my whole career, really, getting setbacks to overcome them. Now I’m playing step four (of non-league), I’m enjoying it, the club, the owners, the players, everyone’s just absolutely top notch.<\/p>\n
“They’re all really happy for me. Playing step four and going to a an international tournament, I don’t think it’s ever been done, has it?”<\/p>\n
He does have experience of far higher levels to draw on, having played for both Charlton and Queens Park Rangers in the Championship during his career.<\/p>\n
Bonne does not expect to be in the starting line-up straight away but hopes he can give Marinica some food for thought when it comes to team selection.<\/p>\n
He added: “Every striker wants to score goals, but my aim is to play, just get some minutes, and anything above that is a bonus. If I do that, the next one will be ‘try and put the ball in the back of the net’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe have a new head coach in charge, with Romanian Mario Marinica having been appointed in November to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[106],"class_list":{"0":"post-2772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}