G.C Who has been your source of inspiration?
R.S It’s my brother, David, who played for Caps United.
G.C What has made you laugh during a match?
R.S Just looking at the face of the opponents after winning a match, their frustration makes me laugh.
G.C Who do you hang out with most from your club?
R.S Brian Mapfumo and Richard Mteki
G.C How do you handle a jeering crowd in a match? Does it affect you?
R.S No, I’m used to the environment, I have come to understand that it is my work and I have not let it affect me.
G.C Do you ever look back in your career and think that you wasted your talent?
R.S I think when I was at Caps United. I did well in the first half of the season. But the whole of the second half ended with me on the bench with the coming of a new coach.
G.C Tell us your dream?
R.S My dream is to play football abroad.
G.C What moments do you recall with pride?
R.S It was in 2004 when we won a silver medal after falling to Zambia in the finals of Zone Six U-20 Championships.
G.C What do you think are the barriers to Zimbabwe football’s success?
R.S There aren’t enough football facilities in the country and there haven’t been consistence in the national team selection. You see one player in the Under 20 today and that player will not be called for the senior side, he just disappears from the selectors’ eyes. I also think the issue of so many different coaches coming in with new ideas has also been a setback to our football. A coach comes today and introduce his ideas, next another coach comes, and on and on.
G.C Players like Dynamos’ Desmond Maringwa, Murape Murape and other senior players from their youthful days played consistently for one club. A player to them was identified with one club, from the juniors graduating to the seniors without moving to other clubs. You been to Motor Action, Shooting Stars, Caps United and now Lengthens, what is it with the moving?
R.S Players of my age are now more concerned about looking for the best paying team to better their lives. It is more about hunting for money not much to develop the game. We look for greener pastures.
G.C What is it like playing for the Happy People?
R.S I have enjoyed being part of them, there is no player isolation, we are just a team in whatever we do.
G.C You are playing Caps United in the final of the ABC Sup8r, this weekend. How do you foresee this game?
R.S We have been working as a team and we are in this final to win.