In what has been a breakthrough season for Warriors’ striker Tawanda Maswanhise in the Scottish Premier League, the season could not have been got any sweeter as the 23-year-old continues to get recognition for his performances in the league for his club outfit Motherwell.
With the Zimbabwe football export scoring for fun and leading the scoring charts in the Scottish Premier league, those eye-catching mouthwatering performances have not gone unnoticed with the Motherwell prodigy getting nominated for Scottish Premier League PFA Player of the season award alongside 3 others, with teammate Elijah Just also part of that shortlist ,and table toppers Hearts duo Claudio Braga and Lawrence Shankland.
Maswanhise’s seamless burst onto the limelight is surely coming as no surprise, as in the last edition of the biggest football showpiece on the great continent of Africa saw Maswanhise being one of the 2 young players at the tournament to be named as the stars of the future after an electrifying outing at the tournament, and considering the limited minutes he had and the uproar it caused within football circles in the Zimbabwe football camp one only wonders the heights he would and could have scaled had he been afforded enough time by the technical team.
As if the recognition would stop coming, just a few days later after the Scottish PFA nomination, another one came in with the Zimbabwean international being officially nominated in the Scottish Football Writers Association (SFWA) Player of the year accolade, for his contribution in Motherwell’s run in the league and for a European spot come next season. With a contribution of 22 goals across all competitions for Motherwell, those stats are as good as any in a European league and deservedly worthy the recognition it is getting.
His Motherwell side has also valued his immense contribution to the team’s efforts with the 23-year-old lad winning the Golden Boot award for the club and is certainly poised to bag the one for the league as he sits ahead of his nearest contenders. To cap it off the club Motherwell named him as the club’s Young Player of the Year. What a stellar season with so much recognition coming from all institutions that matter in Scottish Football circles, and from a national standpoint historical in the sense that here is a player who has achieved what no other football export to Europe from the country did.
He joins a league of history makers on the biggest stage with the most colossal being the great flying elephant Peter Ndlovu who is the 1st African football export to play and score in the English Premier League playing for the sky blues Coventry City, alongside others in Bruce Grobbelaar the former Liverpool shot stopper, Benjani Mwaruwari the former Manchester City striker, Czech giants Sparta Prague defender Costa Nhamoinesu amongst others.
Tawanda Maswanhise’s season could not have been better and with prospects of European club football competition next season, coupled with rumors of other prominent clubs wanting to sign him, the sky is only the limit for the lad.
The recognition he has achieved one hopes ignites him the more to surpass the heights he has set himself this season, and stays disciplined, motivated to achieve more not just for himself but for club and country and etch his name into football folklore.
