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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alton Zitha Kwinika [1] [2] | ||
Date of birth | 4 January 1994 | ||
Place of birth | Meadowlands, South Africa | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Kaizer Chiefs | ||
Number | 4 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2014 | Kaizer Chiefs | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2016 | Kaizer Chiefs | 0 | (0) |
2015–2016 | → Chippa United (loan) | 13 | (0) |
2016–2019 | Chippa United | 53 | (0) |
2016–2017 | → Thanda Royal Zulu (loan) | 29 | (1) |
2019–2020 | Bidvest Wits | 24 | (0) |
2020–2022 | Stellenbosch | 55 | (1) |
2022– | Kaizer Chiefs | 45 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
2015 | South Africa U23 | 1 | (0) |
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 30 June 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 22:54, 21 October 2020 (UTC) |
Alton Zitha Kwinika (born 4 January 1994) is a South African soccer player who plays as a defender for South African Premier Division side Kaizer Chiefs. [3]
Macheke was born in Meadowlands. [4]
He started his career at Kaizer Chiefs, and was promoted to their first team in 2014. [5] He joined Chippa United on a season-long loan in summer 2015, [4] before joining the club on a two-year deal after his contract at Chiefs expired in 2016. [6] [7] He joined Thanda Royal Zulu on loan for the 2016–17 season. [7] [8] He joined Bidvest Wits in July 2019, [9] and made 24 appearances for the club, [2] before signing for Stellenbosch in summer 2020. [10] At the end of the 2021/22 season, he was named as Stellenbosch FC's Footballer of the Year and Players' Player of the Year before completing a return to boyhood club, Kaizer Chiefs. [11]
He has represented South Africa at under-23 level, playing at the 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations.
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