Shepherd Murape is a Zimbabwean

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manager and former player manages the

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Career

Murape played club football for

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side

Dynamos F.C. Dynamos Football Club (also referred to as The Glamour Boys or De-Mbare) is a Zimbabwean professional football club based since 1963 at Rufaro Stadium, Mbare, Harare. The team currently participates in Zimbabwe's top-tier, the Premier Soccer L ...

and for the Zimbabwe national team. In 1976, he became a player-manager for Dynamos, and helped lead the club to several league titles. He went on to manage newly formed

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in 1983. Murape has had stints with QwaQwa Stars F.C.,

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, Orlando Pirates and

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in South Africa. He led Blue Waters to the Namibian league title in 2004. Murape managed the Zimbabwe national team during 1981. In 1994, he became the first person to manage Namibia national team following its independence. Murape was appointed manager of South African

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club Magesi in October 2016.

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