Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mike Temwanjera | ||
Date of birth | 21 May 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Harare, Zimbabwe | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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free agent | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2001–2003 | CAPS United | ? | (?) |
2003–2006 | Javor Ivanjica | 26 | (3) |
2006–2007 | Borac Čačak | 16 | (3) |
2007–2014 | Vaslui | 174 | (39) |
2014–2015 | Bangkok United | 14 | (7) |
National team | |||
2005 | Zimbabwe | 3 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 November 2014. |
Mike Temwanjera (born 21 May 1982, Harare) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays for Thai Premier League side Bangkok United. He usually plays as a Centre forward, but he can also serve as a Second Striker. He is one of the longest serving players of Vaslui, since January 2007 and up to summer 2014 he is Vaslui's second top scorer in Liga I with 39 goals. He is also an international player, managing 3 caps for Zimbabwe national team.
Temwanjera played until 2003 with CAPS United, traditionally one of the strongest teams in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League.
In 2003 Temwanjera came to Serbia for trials with FK Javor Ivanjica, a club that had become a major importer of African footballers, and where six months earlier two of his CAPS United colleagues had come to play, Leonard Tsipa and Blessing Makunike. After impressing club officials, Temwanjera signed a contract and played with Javor for the next three seasons. The season that he came the club had just been relegated from the top league, so Temwanjera played in the Serbian Second League the first two seasons. It was at the end of the 2004–05 season that Javor achieved promotion back to the top flight and won a place to play in the last edition of the First League of Serbia and Montenegro. In the 2005–06 season Temwanjera was one of the main club players, playing 26 matches and scored 3 goals in the league, however the club finished 12th and was being relegated again.