Ralph Matema
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ralph Ticharwa Matema | ||
Date of birth | 19 June 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Bulawayo, Zimbabwe | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Yadah Stars | ||
Youth career | |||
Dynamos | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2003–2004 | Kambuzuma FC | ||
2004–2007 | Highlanders FC | ||
2007–2009 | Orlando Pirates | 4 | (1) |
2009–2014 | Witbank Spurs | ||
2015–2017 | Highlanders FC | ||
2018– | Yadah Stars | ||
International career‡ | |||
2004–2007 | Zimbabwe | 6 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 January 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 January 2022 |
Ralph Matema (born 19 June 1982) is a Zimbabwean footballer. He has been a member of the Zimbabwe national football team.[1]
"Raru", as he is popularly known, is the reigning top scorer of the Zimbabwean CBZ Premier League after netting 19 times in the 2006 season. In 2007, he scored 10 goals in 11 games but left Highlanders FC to join Orlando Pirates for the 2007/2008 season.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Ralph Matema at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ "Highlanders start life without Matema". newzimbabwe.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
Categories:
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Bulawayo
- Zimbabwean men's footballers
- Zimbabwe men's international footballers
- Zimbabwean expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
- Zimbabwean expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
- Men's association football forwards
- Orlando Pirates F.C. players
- Highlanders F.C. players
- Witbank Spurs F.C. players
- Yadah Stars F.C. players
- South African Premier Division players
- National First Division players
- Zimbabwean football biography stubs