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Scoring machine Norman Maroto is no more

By Sports Writer

NORMAN Maroto (40), the last Forward to score over 20 goals in a premiership season has died.

Maroto passed in the early hours of Friday at a private hospital in Harare, after being admitted and put on life support.

The Footballers Union of Zimbabwe (FUZ), where he was working with fellow legend Desmond Maringwa and a team of former stars, confirmed his passing.

โ€œFUZ would like to notify friends and all football stakeholders of the untimely passing of our Communications Officer, Norman Maroto.

โ€œMourners are gathered at No. 2360 Tynwald South, Harare. More information will be shared in the near future,โ€ said FUZ.

Normara as he was affectionately known, also played for Gunners and Motor Action in an impressive career spanning over a decade, invoked memories of his time at Churchill School when he broke into Dynamos as a teenager as part of what the media eventually termed โ€œThe Kidz!et.โ€

The KidzNet squad was Dynamosโ€™ stopgap measure when senior footballers went on strike. It was a Plan B team made of High school-going Academy graduates who went on to take the league by storm.

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