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

Kudakwashe Basopo
Basopo at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-07-18) July 18, 1990 (age 33)[1]
Place of birth Harare, Zimbabwe
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)[1]
International career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Zimbabwe

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 August 3. 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 edit

  1. ^ a b 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

External links edit

  Media related to Kudakwashe Basopo at Wikimedia Commons