| Intro | Zimbabwean footballer | ||
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Athlete Football player Association football player |
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| From | Zimbabwe | ||
| Type | Sports | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth | 12 April 1972, Harare, Zimbabwe | ||
| Age: | 48 years | ||
| Star sign | Aries | ||
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Norman Takanyariwa Mapeza (born 12 April 1972 in Salisbury, Rhodesia – now Harare, Zimbabwe) is a football coach. He played as defender and midfielder position.
In 2012, he was suspended from his job as Zimbabwe’s national football team manager for alleged match-fixing.
Mapeza began his playing career with Darryn Textiles F.C. in Harare. He moved to Europe to play with Sokół Pniewy in the Polish Ekstraklasa for the 1993–94 season. Mapeza next played for several clubs in the Turkish Super Lig, including Galatasaray S.K., Ankaragücü, Altay S.K. and Malatyaspor.
He was only the second Zimbabwean player to play in the UEFA Champions League, appearing in the competition with Galatasaray in the 1990s.
Mapeza left FC Platinum on the 12th of September 2019 and was appointed the manager of the South African PSL team Chippa United on the 1st of October 2019.
Career
- 1993/94 Sokół Pniewy (Poland)
- 1994/95 Galatasaray (Turkey)
- 1995/96 Ankaragücü (Turkey)
- 1996/97 Altay S.K. (Turkey)
- 1997/98 Çanakkale Dardanelspor (Turkey)
- 1998/99 Çanakkale Dardanelspor (Turkey)
- 1999/00 Altay S.K. (Turkey)
- 2000/01 SV Ried im Innkreis (Austria)
- 2001/02 Malatyaspor (Turkey)
- 2002/03 Malatyaspor (Turkey)
- 2003/04 CAPS United (Zimbabwe)
- 2005/06 Ajax Cape Town (South Africa)