Charles Yohane
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 26 August 1973 | ||
Place of birth | Mbare, Rhodesia | ||
Date of death | 12 February 2022 | (aged 48)||
Place of death | Soweto, South Africa | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992–1993 | Fire Batteries | 51 | (16) |
1994 | African Wanderers | 13 | (2) |
1995 | Fire Batteries | 22 | (8) |
1996 | AmaZulu | 28 | (3) |
1997–2006 | Bidvest Wits | 268 | (44) |
2006–2008 | FC AK | ||
International career | |||
1996–2007 | Simbabwe | 23 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Charles Yohane (26 August 1973 – 12 February 2022)[1] was a Zimbabwean footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
[edit]Born in a Salisbury suburb as the fourth of seven kids, Yohane came through the Dynamos football academy before joining Fire Batteries. In January 1995, he moved to South Africa joining the Gordon Igesund-managed African Wanderers then returned home to Zimbabwe. He then went back to South Africa to join AmaZulu before a lengthy spell at Bidvest Wits.[2]
International career
[edit]Yohane was a member of the Zimbabwe national team at the 2004 African Nations Cup, which finished bottom of its group in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals. He also participated at the 2006 African Nations Cup, with the same outcome.
Managerial career
[edit]Yohane was a coach at the Wits University development team until its collapse in 2020[3] and was later coaching Leruma United FC in the ABC Motsepe League.
Death
[edit]Yohane was carjacked and shot dead, suffering a gunshot in February 2022 while in South Africa working as a delivery driver. His body was found in Mzimhlophe, Soweto, on 14 February 2022. He was 48.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Doves Lays Yohane to Rest". Archived from the original on 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ "Details revealed on Charles Yohane's death". New Zimabwe.com. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
- ^ Herald, The. "Wits' collapse leaves Yohane jobless". The Herald. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "Former Warriors defender, Charles Yohane, murdered in SA". Pindula. 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "Ex-Zimbabwe footballer Yohane killed". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
External links
[edit]- Charles Yohane at Soccerway.com
- Charles Yohane at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1973 births
- 2022 deaths
- Footballers from Harare
- 2004 African Cup of Nations players
- 2006 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Zimbabwean men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Zimbabwe men's international footballers
- Amazulu F.C. (Zimbabwe) players
- Bidvest Wits F.C. players
- FC AK players
- Zimbabwean expatriate men's footballers
- Zimbabwean expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
- Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
- Deaths by firearm in South Africa
- People murdered in South Africa
- Zimbabwean people murdered abroad
- South African Premier Division players
- Zimbabwean football biography stubs