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player. He has played forward and attacking midfield professionally in Zimbabwe, Switzerland and the United States, as well as for the Zimbabwe national team.

Career

He came to prominence in Zimbabwe while playing for popular Harare outfit, Dynamos, where he was top goal scorer for five seasons. Takawira was the top scorer in the Zimbabwean First Division four times and won the African Golden Boot in 1994. He signed with

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in 1996, and was allocated to Kansas City Wiz (later Wizards). Takawira spent the next four years with Kansas City, playing 110 times, with 29 goals scored and 19 assists in the league. After goals, he would often celebrate with the ''Digital Crawl'', where he would get down and walk on all fours as teammates joined in. After leaving MLS, Takawira moved down to the

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and Milwaukee Wave United. He was named A-League MVP in 2000 and helped Rampage to the league title in 2002. For Zimbabwe, Takawira played from 1992 to 1999, and scored 12 goals in 26 appearances.

Honors

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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References

1972 births Living people Footballers from Harare Zimbabwean men's footballers Zimbabwean expatriate men's footballers Zimbabwe men's international footballers Sporting Kansas City players USL First Division players Milwaukee Rampage players Milwaukee Wave United players Dynamos F.C. players Major League Soccer players Major League Soccer All-Stars Zimbabwean expatriate sportspeople in the United States Men's association football forwards {{Zimbabwe-footy-bio-stub