 Basopo at the 2016 Olympics | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 18 July 1990[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Harare, Zimbabwe | ||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)[1] | ||
| International career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 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
She represented her nation in the football competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
She scored the nation's first goal in Olympic history against Germany on 3 August. 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 made it a goal leaving the score at 6–1 against Zimbabwe.[2]
- ^ a b Kudakwashe Basopo Archived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ Behringer, Germany cruise past Zimbabwe in women’s soccer opener, Nicholas Mendola, 3 August 2016, NBC sports, Retrieved 5 August 2016