Kudakwashe Mahachi (born 29 September 1993) is a

Zimbabwean Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Moza ...

professional

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, who plays as a

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for South African club

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and the Zimbabwe national team.

Career

Club

Mahachi spent the end of his youth career with Highlanders, before moving into senior football with

Bantu Rovers Bantu Tshintsha Guluva Rovers Football Club is a Zimbabwean football club based in Bulawayo since their recent purchase by a group of businessmen from that city. Prior to that the club was named Eastern Lions Football Club and based in Mutare, ...

. His spell with Bantu was short as he left soon after joining when he agreed to join Chicken Inn. He remained a Chicken Inn player for two years before departing in 2014 when Mahachi rejoined Highlanders. After another short stint, his next move saw him leave Zimbabwe for the first time as he joined

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side

Mamelodi Sundowns Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club (simply known as Sundowns) is a South African professional football club based in Mamelodi, Pretoria in the Gauteng province that plays in the Premier Soccer League, the first tier of South African football l ...

in South Africa. 14 appearances and 1 goal followed in his debut season with the Sundowns, in his second campaign he was loaned out to fellow PSL club

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. He scored four goals in twenty-five appearances in all competitions for Golden Arrows before returning to the Sundowns. He missed Golden Arrows' league match versus

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on 11 May 2016 due to the passing of his daughter.

International

In January 2014, coach Ian Gorowa, invited Mahachi to be a part of the

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squad for the

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. He helped the team to a fourth-place finish after being defeated by

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by a goal to nil. Mahachi scored his first goal for his nation in the aforementioned 2014 African Nations Championship and his second in a friendly versus

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Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

''Scores and results list Zimbabwe's goal tally first.''

Honours

Club

;Chicken Inn * Zimbabwean Charity Shield (1):

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References

1993 births Living people Zimbabwean footballers Zimbabwean expatriate footballers Zimbabwe A' international footballers Chicken Inn F.C. players Highlanders F.C. players Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. players Lamontville Golden Arrows F.C. players Orlando Pirates F.C. players SuperSport United F.C. players South African Premier Division players 2014 African Nations Championship players 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players Association football midfielders Zimbabwean expatriate sportspeople in South Africa Expatriate soccer players in South Africa Zimbabwe international footballers {{Zimbabwe-footy-bio-stub