{"id":192859,"date":"2026-10-05T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T00:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/?p=192859&preview=true&preview_id=192859"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:40:05","slug":"suriname-makes-approach-for-top-scorer-zwarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/suriname-makes-approach-for-top-scorer-zwarts\/","title":{"rendered":"Suriname makes approach for top scorer Zwarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p>Jo\u00ebl Zwarts has caught the attention of Suriname&#8217;s national team. The 27-year-old top scorer of CSKA Sofia was approached by the Surinamese football association earlier this month. \u201cHopefully, a solution will be found.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap \" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; border-color: #ffffff;\">Z<\/span>warts moved from Lokomotiv Plovdiv to CSKA Sofia last summer and has been scoring freely in the Bulgarian capital. This has not gone unnoticed in Suriname either. Before the home match against Arda Kardzhali, Zwarts&#8217; phone rang; he is eligible for the country through his Surinamese mother.<\/p>\n<p>The former striker of clubs such as Excelsior and ADO Den Haag did not have to think long, but an international debut is not yet on the cards. Due to the uncertainty over the consequences of choosing Suriname, Zwarts remains cautious. Together with his agent, he contacted various authorities, including the IND (Immigration and Naturalisation Service).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard that a number of Surinamese players have received letters about surrendering their Dutch nationality,\u201d Zwarts says. \u201cNaturally, you do not want that. Hopefully, a solution will be found.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suriname has shown interest in Jo\u00ebl Zwarts, top scorer at CSKA Sofia, but uncertainty over nationality rules is delaying his potential international debut for the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":192987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_29234516172805655_1309923202201307":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1158244960706604":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1093738170500407":"","facebook_29234516172805655_108923581283702":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20286],"tags":[20287,16291,20032,20643,16292],"class_list":["post-192859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-football","tag-key-news","tag-nieuws","tag-sport","tag-suriname"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193075,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192859\/revisions\/193075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}