Zimbabwe: Football Heroes and Nicknames - an African Perspective

20 October 2014

Gift 'GHETTO MUDUSO' Mpariwa: Every game for him was a money game. MUDUSO for those not familiar with ghetto lingo is slang for money and for him every goal scored was like a pay cheque.

OVER the years African football has produced some great players. What has left a permanent mark on the mind is not only the skills, the great goals and the defending but also the legend that has developed around these players. For instance a certain player in Zimbabwe had a reputation of playing with a list of all creditors in his pair of socks; apparently this motivated him to play and win so he could pay off the loans. May I hasten to add that most of the creditors happened to be shebeen queens from whom he would have borrowed crates of beer.

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