By Lovemore Moyo
With the mid-season transfer window in full swing, KickOff.com’s Lovemore Moyo looks back at some of the worst foreign strikers to play in the country since the start of the PSL in 1996.
These were imports that were meant to essentially solve the goalscoring troubles in the League, but ultimately ended up becoming part of the problem.
Everyone makes mistakes, but some of the blunders in the signings that were made by the clubs are laughable. Most of these strikers finally find their true level when they go and play in obscure leagues.
We start off the list at number 30 and will move down every day until we reach the top-end of some of the mediocrity that has found its way into the PSL since 1996.
30 – Shingi Kawondera (SuperSport United)
The Zimbabwean sits at the bottom of this list; not because he was a terrible player, but down to the fact that he didn’t deliver on the talent he had during his time in South Africa.
There is absolutely no question that Kawondera was a much better footballer than most in this category, but unfortunately not much worked out for him during the one season (2006/07) he spent at SuperSport United.
Following years of being praised as the next big thing to happen to Zimbabwean football, he spent a year across the Limpopo battling to just settle down and is the first to admit that his off-field demons were his biggest weakness in an environment laced with so many temptations.
Though he scored three goals along the way during his stay in Tshwane, it was his lifestyle that let down Pitso Mosimane – the man who had so much belief and trust in him when he recruited him.
Straight after leaving SuperSport, Kawondera left for Cyprus where he played before his once promising career was eventually washed down the drain.
Recent reports from his homeland have suggested he is now broke with his mentally instability forcing him to be admitted into hospital. Kick Off.com
