SNIPER STRIKES AGAIN

SNIPER 1Grace Chingoma Senior Sports Reporter
ZIMBABWE international striker Nyasha Mushekwi continued his fine form in the Swedish Premiership on Monday night when he rose from the bench to score the only goal of the night for his team Djurgarden.

The priceless strike powered Djurgarden to a 1-0 away victory against Helsingborg at Olympia Stadium.

His team is now on fourth position on the log table.

According to the club’s official website, Mushekwi had to start from the bench after having problems with allergies for a couple of weeks.

But the former CAPS United forward put his problems behind him to show why he has become his team’s superhero when he was introduced in the second half and made the difference.

The match was attended by 9 234 people.

Mushekwi has now scored 12 goals in the Swedish top-flight league, after joining a few months ago, on loan from Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa.

His goals and his powerful runs have already attracted interest from a number of top clubs in Europe and reports indicate that he could move before the current window closes.

The Zimbabwe international has attracted interest with clubs from Holland, Germany and France, but his handlers favour a move to England where they feel his physical game would be better suited.

Mushekwi last played for Mamelodi Sundowns in the 2012-2013 season.

And with his loan stint expiring next month, many eagerly anticipate whether he would join a club in Europe, or he will extend his stay in Sweden.

Mushekwi told a Swedish television station that he wanted to stay at his current club for a longer period.

“I would (want) spent the rest of my life at this club,” he said.

But his fate might not be in his hands and his goals might power him to a new destination sooner than he thinks.

The big forward was in Zimbabwe briefly last month to visit his family and said he was impressed with the way things have turned out for him.

“You have to praise God for everything that is happening in my life right now in as far as my football is concerned,” said Mushekwi.

“Sometimes it is hard to believe everything that is happening, especially after what I went through recently, the fact that the goals have just been coming and I have been playing very well again.

“I never lost faith in my abilities, even when things were not going well for me, I knew that if I get the right environment, I could get to the levels that I believe I can play and in the last few months, it has all come together.

“It’s not easy, especially when you are a striker, because you are judged by the number of goals that you score and I have to just go out there and do as well as I can and I thank the Lord for guiding me to be where I am right now.”

Mushekwi said while he has read, and heard, that there were a number of bigger clubs that were interested in his services, he was still to get something concrete.

“Obviously, when you are scoring goals there is going to be interest and you read it in the newspapers and you hear people talk about it, but I haven’t had anything that is concrete right now and when it happens you will be the first to know,” said Mushekwi.

“Right now, it is important that I should not be distracted by being too ambitious but to concentrate on playing for my club and doing as best as I can and, so far, things have moved very well.

“The atmosphere here is very good, the fans really love their teams and we have very good support and the fans want us to do very well and I think I have also done my part, so far, to make many of them happy with the goals.

“But it’s all about the team and we win as one team and lose as one team and credit should not be given to me alone but the entire team and those people who had trust in me, who gave me this chance, even when others doubted that I could make it at this level.”

Mushekwi is in the plans of Warriors coach Callisto Pasuwa and is set to be considered, on this kind of form, for the next 2017 Nations Cup qualifier against Guinea after missing the trip to Malawi because of injury.

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