Kudakwashe Basopo

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Kudakwashe Basopo
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Basopo at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-07-18) 18 July 1990 (age 35) [1]
Place of birth Harare, Zimbabwe
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) [1]
Team information
Current team
Nsingizini Hotspur
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2014 Black Rinhos 1 (1)
2023 Harare 1 (1)
2024-2025 Black Mambas 3 (7)
2025 Nsingizini Hotspur 17 (50)
International career
Zimbabwe 1 (3)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kudakwashe Basopo (born 18 July 1990) is a Zimbabwean association football player. She is a member of the Zimbabwe women's national football team

She represented her nation in the football competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

She scored the nation's first goal in Olympic history against Germany on 3 August. In the match versus Germany it was Rutendo Makore who set up a goal that took the German goalkeeper Almuth Schult by surprise. The ball was rebounded but Basopo made it a goal leaving the score at 6–1 against Zimbabwe. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Kudakwashe Basopo Archived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine . rio2016.com
  2. Behringer, Germany cruise past Zimbabwe in women’s soccer opener, Nicholas Mendola, 3 August 2016, NBC sports, Retrieved 5 August 2016

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