Gilbert Banda

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Gilbert Banda
Personal information
Date of birth (1983-05-30) May 30, 1983 (age 40)
Place of birth Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
How Mine
Youth career
Highlanders Juniors
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2001–2012 Highlanders FC [1]
2013– How Mine
International career
2006–2010 Zimbabwe 8 (0 [2] )
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gilbert Banda (born 30 May 1983 in Bulawayo) is a Zimbabwean former football player, who plays for How Mine and made 8 appearances for the Zimbabwe national team.

On 20 October 2012 Banda was banned from the sport for ten years for match fixing. [3]

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References

  1. "Gilbert Banda". Highlanders FC. Archived from the original on 28 April 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
  2. Gilbert Banda at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. Moses Chibaye (20 October 2012). "Sunday Chidzambwa, Rushwaya get life bans". The Zimbabwean. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012.