‘Ha ha ha’ Tapuwa Kapini laughs off Chipo Tsodzo’s claim to wonder goal

FORMER Highlanders eccentric goalkeeper Tapuwa Kapini has ‘laughed off’ claims by his former teammate Chipo Tsodzo on the scorer of the 2004 wonder goal against Caps United that propelled Bosso to a 4-3 win.
Tsodzo, popularly known as Jackroller, told StarFM radio presenter Babongile Sikhonjwa during the station’s outside broadcast programme at Archers Sports Club on Tuesday evening that he was the scorer of the fourth goal which gave Bosso maximum points in a match they were at one time trailing 1-3 only for them to engineer a dramatic comeback.
“Hahaha, mina zwi,” wrote Kapini on his X page as he reacted to the story.
Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation camera person, Lawrence Maphosa, who was manning the Outside Broadcast van as the match was beamed live by the national broadcaster, said the goal was awarded to Kapini and even replays showed the same.
Facing a trailblazing Caps United that had not lost a match then, Bosso found themselves 1-3 down as Makepekepe seemed well on course for another routine win, only for the Bulawayo giants to turn on the power with three goals including the fourth one which all along had been described as a wonder goal scored by the eccentric goalkeeper Tapuwa Kapini.
On Tuesday evening during a StarFM radio outside studio broadcast interview at Archers Sports Club Tsodzo told presenter Babongile Sikhonjwa that it was infact, him who scored the goal by flicking it over a drawn out Witness Munkuli.
Other former players who were part of the StarFM radio show included Gift Lunga Jnr, Amini Soma Phiri, Ronald Gidiza Sibanda, Voster Chitemu, Siza Dube, Golding Dube, Danisa Phiri and Johannes Ngodzo.
“I scored that goal, it wasn’t Kapini as is believed. As the long ball came from Kapini, it bounced and being the last man, I flicked it over a drawn out Witness Munkuli,” said Tsodzo.
Gidiza later said that it was not the first time that Tsodzo had attributed the goal to himself.
“I am not hearing this for the first time as Tsodzo always tells us that it was him who scored it. I think the matter can be settled by perhaps going to the match day referee’s archives,” said Gidiza.