match at Rutendo on Sunday, was buried at his rural home in Nkayi yesterday.
Ndlovu (21), collapsed in the 55th minute as he was about to take a free kick, and was pronounced dead on admission at Kwekwe General Hospital.
It has since been established he was asthmatic.
Yesterday, Zifa Central Region chairman Pat-rick Hokonya joined the mourners as his league declared that all weekend matches observe a minute of silence.
The region also sent a message of condolence.
“On Sunday 15th March 2011 we lost a Silo United player during the match between Rutendo Stars FC And Silo United FC.
“We are saddened by this death and all the members of staff, executive and the entire football fraternity join the family in mourning the sad departure of Nqobizita Ndlovu.
“May all the clubs observe a minute of silent in all the matches in memory of our dear departed comrade.
“May his soul rest in peace,” read the letter signed by the Zifa Central Region administrator, Gift Nyapomwe.
A few years ago, a Blue Swallows player died during a match at Manyame while Marc-Vivien Foé, of Cameroon, also collapsed and died in Lyon on June 26, 2003, during a Fifa Confederations Cup tie.
A third-tier league Ghanaian footballer Michael Dzigbodzi Agormor Junior died during a league match on May 1 at the Tema Sports Stadium.
The True Democracy player went for a tackle against Royal Anderlecht player and remained motionless afterwards, the Ghana Sports Newspaper reported early this month.
The medical team was not equipped with the necessary first aid only poured iced water on him and fanned him with his jersey but he did not respond. He was later rushed to the Tema Port Clinic but had to be sent to the Tema General Hospital because there was no doctor around and he was later pronounced dead.
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