Mmusa Ohilwe

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Mmusa Ohilwe
Personal information
Date of birth (1986-04-17) 17 April 1986 (age 37)
Place of birth Shoshong, Botswana
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Defender (central and right)
Team information
Current team
 Extension Gunners
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005–2007 Botswana Meat Commission 52 (3)
2007–2009 Township Rollers 57 (5)
2009–2010 Botswana Meat Commission 27 (2)
2010–2012 Gaborone United 53 (4)
2012–2013 Botswana Meat Commission 22 (0)
2014– Extension Gunners 14 (1)
International career‡
2009– Botswana 29 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 December 2014

Mmusa Ohilwe (born 17 April 1986) is a Botswanan footballer who currently plays for Extension Gunners [1] in the Botswana Premier League. He has won twenty-nine caps for the Botswana national football team.

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Club career

Mmusa started his career in the Botswana Premier League at Botswana Meat Commission (BMC FC) in 2005 and later switched Township Rollers in 2007 where he spent two seasons before going back to BMC where he started his career. With his defensive abilities highly regarded, Ohilwe went on trial to Greece before returning home to join Gaborone United Gaborone United then BMC again before switching to Extension Gunners in January 2014 after returning from Vietnam where he had a successful trial but could not make a move due to administrative issues.[ citation needed ]

International career

He has featured in the national team twenty nine times to date and he was a member of the team that made history by being the first team to qualify for the African Nations Cup for the first time in 2012. [2]

International goals

Scores and results list Botswana's goal tally first.
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
113 October 2012 Lobatse Stadium, Lobatse, Botswana Flag of Mali.svg  Mali 1–41–4 2013 Africa Cup of Nations Qualification

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References

  1. ↑ "Total Football Newspaper". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Botswana zebras qualify for Afcon 2012" . Retrieved 27 March 2018.


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