Danny Phiri

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Danny Phiri
Personal information
Full name Danny Phiri
Date of birth (1989-07-25) 25 July 1989 (age 34)
Place of birth Norton, Zimbabwe [1]
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Position(s) Defensive midfielder [1]
Team information
Current team
 Golden Arrows
Youth career
Amazulu
–2008 Railstars
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2009–2010 Bantu Rovers
2011–2016 Chicken Inn
2016–2021 Golden Arrows 86 (3)
International career‡
2014–2019 Zimbabwe 40 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 November 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 November 2022

Danny Phiri (born 25 July 1989) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer, who plays as a defensive midfielder for Golden Arrows and the Zimbabwe national team.

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Club career

Phiri's youth career included spells with the junior sides of Amazulu and Railstars. In 2009, Phiri made the move into senior football when he agreed to join Bantu Rovers. He stayed with Bantu for two years before joining Chicken Inn. In 2015, he and Chicken Inn won the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League and Phiri subsequently won the Soccer Star of the Year award. [2]

In April 2016, Phiri, along with teammates Tafadzwa Kutinyu and Moses Demera, left Zimbabwe to attend a trial at Lamontville Golden Arrows. [3] [4]

International career

In January 2014, coach Ian Gorowa, invited him to be a part of the Zimbabwe squad for the 2014 African Nations Championship. [5] [6] He played in all six of Zimbabwe's matches and helped the team to a fourth-place finish after being defeated by Nigeria by 1–0. Since the 2014 African Nations Championship, Phiri has made a further seven appearances for his nation, with five of them coming in qualifying for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. He has scored twice. [7] [8]

Career statistics

International

As of 17 July 2019. [1]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Zimbabwe 201210
201320
2014101
201591
201670
201740
201830
201940
Total402

International goals

As of 19 June 2016. Scores and results list Zimbabwe's goal tally first. [1]
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
11 June 2014 National Sports Stadium, Harare, ZimbabweFlag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania 1–02–2 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
218 October 2015 Barbourfields Stadium, Bulawayo, ZimbabweFlag of Lesotho.svg  Lesotho 3–13–1 2016 African Nations Championship qualification

Honours

Individual

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Danny Phiri". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Breaking: Chicken Inn's Danny Phiri is Soccer Star of the Year". NewsDay. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Golden Arrows take Chicken Inn trio for trials". Soccer24. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Golden Arrows release Mwape Musonda, Ryan Chapman, hand trials to Chicken Inn trio". Kick Off. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "Zimbabwe Warriors leave for Chan tournament". newsday.co.zw. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  6. ↑ "Zimbabwe name final squad for CHAN tournament". cosafa.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  7. ↑ "CHAN 2014: awards and team of the CHAN". en.starafrica.com. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  8. ↑ "Articles tagged 'warriors'". dailynews.co.zw. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.


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