Leonard Tsipa

Leonard Tsipa

Personal information
Full name	Leonard Tsipa
Date of birth	(1982-01-25)25 January 1982
Place of birth	Harare, Zimbabwe
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2002	CAPS United
2002–2003	FK Javor	4	(0)
2003–2007	CAPS United
2008	Dynamos
2009–2010	CAPS United
2011–	Gunners Harare
International career‡
2004–2009	Zimbabwe	5	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 September 2011 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 September 2011

Leonard "Aghahowa" Tsipa (born 25 January 1982) is an international Zimbabwean football striker that plays in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League side Gunners F.C..

Club career

In 2002, together with his CAPS teammate Blessing Makunike, he went to Serbia, to play with FK Javor. They played in the 2002–03 First League of Serbia and Montenegro but the club finished 12th and was consequently relegated to the second league for the following season. After not getting much chances to play, both returned to CAPS United F.C., where they archived major success by winning, in 2004 and 2005, the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League titles. He played most of his career with CAPS, the exceptions were only his spell in Serbia in 2003, and when he played one season in 2008 with previous year Zimbabwean champions Dynamos F.C. managing to finish that season runners-up, however the goal that season was the CAF Champions League where they reached the record semi-finals in 2008 edition. For the 2011 season he moved to the 2010 Zimbabwean champions Gunners F.C..

Tsipa usually plays as a striker or as attacking midlefelder.

National team

By May 2011 Leonard Tsipa has played five matches for the Zimbabwean national team and scored one goal.

Honours

CAPS United

• Zimbabwe Premier League (2): 2004, 2005
• Zimbabwean Cup (1): 2004

Dynamos Harare

• CAF Champions League semi-finals: 2008

References

• Tsipa.html Leonard Tsipa at National-Football-Teams.com
• Leonard Tsipa at Srbijafudbal.