Fungai Muderere
FORMER Dynamos and national team player George “Mastermind” Shaya has died.
Shaya who has been unwell for the past years reportedly died at his Glen Norah home in Harare yesterday.
The footballer won the Rhodesia soccer star of the year for a record five times including the inaugural award in 1969.
The late Shaya was among some of the most celebrated yesteryear footballers to have played for Dynamos and the Zimbabwe national team.
At the time of his death, he was walking with the aid of crutches after his left leg was amputated last year.
Last year, as a way of honouring him, Doves Funeral Assurance and its South Africa-based sister company Zororo-Phumulani Repatriation and Funeral Plan, held a belated birthday party for him at his home in the capital.
The company also pledged to provide monthly groceries on top of a curved 65-inch UHD TV birthday present at the event that coincided with Shaya’s golden jubilee marriage anniversary with wife Agnes.
Early this month, his documentary was previewed in Bulawayo.
