Kudakwashe Basopo

Kudakwashe Basopo

Basopo at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full name Kudakwashe Basopo
Date of birth (1990-07-18) July 18, 1990[1]
Place of birth Zimbabwe
Height 162 cm (5 ft 4 in)[1]
National team
Zimbabwe

Kudakwashe Basopo (born 18 July 1990) is a Zimbabwean association football player. She is a member of the Zimbabwe women's national football team and represented the country 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 make it a goal leaving the score at 6–1 against Zimbabwe.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Kudakwashe Basopo. 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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