The striker, who has just agreed a one-year contract extension with Dynamos, said he was ready to have the good old days rolled back. “I am in good shape. I was training hard during the off season break. Last season, I started playing late, so I could not challenge for the title. But I am ready to have my title back,” said the pencil-slim striker.
The Golden Boot winner gets $2,000. Mutuma signed for Dynamos when the season was three quarters through, after he was off-loaded by South African Absa Premiership side, Bloemfontein Celtic.
The striker said he wanted to overhaul the 14 goals he scored in the year he won the title and added that his target was to go over the 20-goal mark that had become a mirage for most of the modern-day strikers.
Nelson Mazivisa, who won the crown in 2012, scored 18 goals, one more than Tendai Ndoro – the 2013 winner who grabbed 17 goals. The 2014 joint winners – Charles Sibanda of Highlanders and Kuda Musharu of How Mine had 12 goals apiece.
The record of the highest goals scored is still in the hands of the now late great Peter Nyama, who scored 62 goals in 1971 and won the Castle Soccer Star of the Year Award that same year.
Mutuma was part of the Dynamos side that won the league title last season and has had his contract extended after lengthy discussion in which the two parties had initially failed to agree on the player’s earnings. He has made it clear that his intention were to return to the South African Absa Premiership, where there is more money than what is on offer in the Zimbabwean game.
His club has failed to take part in the Caf Champions League due to the non-availability of funds.
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