Potent Whisky is Alex Northrand LFA’s Golden Boot Award winner
Norwood Young Stars goal-poacher Kudakwashe 'Chapomba' Whisky pips United Stars' Njabulo 'NJay' Shabalala to win the Golden Boot Award.
Whisky is a potent liquor, famous for knocking its imbibers stone-drunk, but this spirit shares a name with a young man who has a cunning knack for scoring goals.
The young man goes by the name of Kudakwashe Whisky, a 23-year-old Zimbabwean immigrant from the small village of Svosve, on the outskirts of the town of Marondera, on the peripheries of the capital, Harare, who came to the country in January this year to join his father, Ernest, who is a plumber by profession.
After just a little more than a month in the country, the Orange Grove resident, an up-and-coming footballer back home, told his father he wanted to pursue his snowballing soccer career in Mzansi as well.
His father, a social soccer player, pointed him to Norwood Young Stars FC, a football club in their neck of the woods, and went on to introduce his son to club president Venita Masisi, who connected him with the senior team coach, and the rest is history for the diminutive player.
Whisky’s goal-poaching prowess back home earned him the nickname ‘Chapomba’, which his teammates in Zim describe as a more potent, traditional spirit beer that surpasses whisky, and aptly symbolises his goal-banging exploits.
Of course, much was expected of Chapomba, due to his nickname and his reputation, and the delivery he did upon arrival at Norwood Young Stars FC.
Chapomba scored on his debut for Young Stars against Alex Royal Tigers SC on February 13, when his contenders for Top Goal Scorer of the Season had already played nine matches more than him.
His second match was against Western Boys and in that one, he banged a quadruple of goals to his credit in an outing in which his side won 10-0; thus the avalanche of goals started to flow, culminating in 36 goals in only 21 games. The next closest to his score was Njabulo ‘NJay’ Shabalala of United Stars, who managed 34 goals in 30 games.
NJay had led the pack for the entire first half of the league, and three-quarters of the second stanza, before Chapomba piped up in the dying league moments to clinch the award by a slender margin of two goals.
Back home in Zim, Chapomba played for Green Buffaloes and went on to captain Bekimpilo Nyoni’s Academy side, better known as BN Academy, but in July 2023 he was loaned to Shamva Mine FC where he stayed until he emigrated to Mzansi early this year.
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