Norman Mapeza

Norman Mapeza
Personnel
Surname	Norman Takanyariwa Mapeza
birthday	April 12, 1972
place of birth	Salisbury ,  Rhodesia
size	184 cm
position	Defender / Def. Midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1991-1993	Darryn Textiles FC	68 (1)
1993-1994	Billionaire Pniewy	26 (0)
1994-1995	Galatasaray Istanbul	25 (2)
1995-1996	MKE Ankaragücü	31 (2)
1996-1997	Altay İzmir	29 (1)
1997-1999	Dardanelspor	61 (2)
1999-2000	Altay İzmir	26 (1)
2001-2002	SV Ried	10 (0)
2001-2002	→  Malatyaspor  (loan)	17 (0)
2003-2004	CAPS United	38 (1)
2004-2005	Ajax Cape Town	11 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1993-2002	Zimbabwe
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2003-2004	CAPS United (Co-TR)
2007	Zimbabwe (Interm-TR)
2007-2008	Monomotapa United FC
2009	Zimbabwe (Interim TR)
2010	Zimbabwe (Interim TR)
2010-2011	Zimbabwe (Co-TR)
2011–2012	Zimbabwe
2014–	Platinum FC
2017–	Zimbabwe (Interim TR)
1 Only league games are given.

Norman Mapeza (born April 12, 1972 in Salisbury , Rhodesia ) is a former Zimbabwean football player and current coach .

Player career

Mapeza was discovered and promoted by the Polish functionary Wieslaw Grabowski in the Chitungwiza Junior League at the end of the 1980s . Grabowski, at that time player scout broker, president and coach of Darryn T in personal union , had established a support system that was revolutionary for the time in Africa, in which he scouted talent, mainly from the city of Chitungwiza , via the youth farm team Cone Textiles introduced the professional team Darryn Textiles FC and, if they developed well, placed them in Europe, mostly at a Polish club. Mapeza developed into a model example of the support program, came through Cone-Textiles in 1991 to the professional team of Darryn T , where he was promoted to national team of his country in his third season .

In the 1993/94 season, through the agency of Grabowski, he moved to Europe to the Polish first division club Billiarder Pniewy , as a result of which he changed clubs eight times from 1993 to 2003. At the side of then highly talented players such as Krzysztof Nowak and Tomasz Rząsa , he established himself in Pniewy straight away in a European league and finished tenth in the table with the club. After he was promoted to captain of Zimbabwe in the meantime and had also set several exclamation marks internationally, he was signed by the reigning Turkish champions Galatasaray Istanbul for the 1994/95 season .

Under the German coach Reinhard Saftig , he got a high proportion of the game due to his variable deployment in the defensive midfield or as a right defender in the squad, which was mainly made up of Turkish stars such as Tugay Kerimoğlu , Okan Buruk or Bülent Korkmaz . In addition, he became the first Zimbabwean football player in the UEFA Champions League , (Note: Previously, Bruce Grobbelaar, a player from Zimbabwe for Liverpool FC, had already played in the European Cup .) Where he played in five out of six possible games was used against FC Barcelona and Manchester United for over 90 minutes. Galatasaray finished the season with third place in the table behind local rivals Beşiktaş Istanbul and Trabzonspor and could not win a title, Juicy had to go and replaced by the Scots Graeme Souness . With Barry Venison , Dean Saunders , Mike Marsh , Brad Friedel and Ulrich van Gobbel he engaged five new foreigners to rebuild the team according to his ideas. This in turn meant that Mapeza, despite impressive performances, had to leave the club after only one year and moved within the league to the capital city club MKE Ankaragücü . After a season as a regular player and eleventh place in the table, he moved to Altay İzmir , where he was in a relegation battle for the entire season and only barely managed to stay in league position fourteen. Then Dardanelspor signed him , where he achieved the best placement in the club's history with eleventh place in the table and stayed for the first time longer than a season with a Turkish club. Without significant reinforcements, however, the club slipped from the following season and had to relegate as penultimate to the second division, whereupon Mapeza again moved back to Altay İzmir within the league. Despite some well-known players like Sejad Halilović , Kenan Hasagić or Necati Ateş , Altay played a disappointing season and at the end of the season had to be relegated as third from bottom due to the worse goal difference against İstanbulspor .

Mapeza, who was now relegated for two consecutive years, then left the team again and joined the Premier League club West Ham United in preparation for the 2000/01 season . After several weeks at the club, the then Hammers manager Harry Redknapp tried to commit the player, but this failed due to a lack of a work permit. Mapeza was still captain of his country at the time, but had not played the necessary number of official internationals for his country in the last two years. As a result, he did not play for any other team until winter before he was signed up in the spring of 2001, after a trial training session from the Austrian first division club SV Ried until the end of the season, with the option of two more years.

After an outstanding competitive debut by Mapeza against the reigning champions SK Sturm Graz , the Innviertler withdrew their option for a further extension shortly after signing the contract in order to tie the player to the club in the long term. This was followed by further strong performances by Mapeza, who was only used from the libero position at Ried , before he fell sharply at the end of the season and acted noticeably listless. After he made it clear in a conversation with the club management that he did not feel comfortable in Austria and wanted to move to a bigger league, the club gave him permission to negotiate with other clubs. In the summer transition period, Mapeza could not be reached by Ried, but since there were no official offers for the player, it was assumed that he would remain in Austria. However, when Mapeza did not appear for the official start of training, FIFA was turned on and temporarily banned him. Shortly afterwards it was announced that Mapeza had signed a contract with the then English second division club Portsmouth , stating that it was not a club . Redknapp, who had wanted to bring him to West Ham a year earlier, had meanwhile moved to Portsmouth and Mapeza had received a work permit for England. After Ried informed Portsmouth of Mapeza's contractual situation, Redknapp canceled the contract with immediate effect and refrained from any commitment. Mapeza then completed a trial training with the Wolverhampton Wanderers , in which he could not convince. In October 2001 he finally moved back to Turkey on loan to the newly promoted Malatyaspor . Ried, which Mapeza really wanted to sell, had to agree to the loan deal, as Malatyaspor had previously exhausted its entire transfer budget, but agreed to an automatic purchase obligation after a certain number of bets. At Malatyaspor he was then again a regular player before he broke his right leg on February 16, 2002 in the game against Denizlispor after a brutal attack by Çoşkun Birdal and as a result surprisingly ended his playing career.

In 2003 he celebrated a comeback in his home country at CAPS United , after having previously looked after the club as an assistant coach. After a fourth place in the table in 2003, he was able to celebrate the championship title in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League for the first time in 2004 . He then announced that he wanted to move to Europe again, but did not find a club before he signed a one-year contract in South Africa with Ajax Cape Town . For Ajax he was used eleven times before he finally ended his playing career.

National team

Mapeza was an integral part of the Zimbabwean national football team and, with interruptions, was also the captain of the team . Although the team in the meantime with players like Peter Ndlovu , Henry McKop , Bruce Grobbelaar , Dickson Choto or Benjani Mwaruwari was occupied quite high quality, he could during his time either for the Africa Cup still for a FIFA World Cup qualifying.

Coaching career

In 2003 he started working as an assistant coach at CAPS United from the Zimbabwean capital Harare . In 2004 he celebrated the Zimbabwean championship title as a playing assistant coach. In 2007 he took over the Zimbabwean national team for the first time together with the Swiss Marc Duvillard as interim coach for an international match against Malawi . As a result, he supervised the Zimbabwean first-list Monomotapa United FC for the first time a club team as head coach, which he led as a blatant outsider to the championship title in 2008. Then he surprisingly ended his contract with Monomotapa after differences with the club's management, before he got the chance again as interim coach of Zimbabwe in 2009. Despite a 3-1 home win, again against Malawi, the association spoke out in favor of signing the Brazilian Valinhos, who was sacked after a series of defeats in 2010. The association then used Mapeza again as an interim trainer, but subsequently decided on the more experienced Madinda Ndlovu as a permanent trainer. In 2011 he was installed as an equal partner for Ndlovu in the national team. The coaches soon quarreled , however, as a result of which Ndlovu was dismissed and Mapeza was downgraded to assistant coach of Belgian Tom Sainfiet . But after he did not receive a work permit, Mapeza was officially installed as the head coach of the senior national team for the first time. In 2012 the association suspended him alongside a total of 98 Zimbabwean footballers for six months in the wake of the "Asiagate Affair", one of the biggest match-fixing scandals in recent years. Since there was no evidence that Mapeza was involved in the manipulation, the latter sued the association for damages in the amount of US $ 400,000. He also asked for an official apology from the association. As a result, an out-of-court settlement was reached in the course of which Mapeza was fully rehabilitated by the association.

It was not until 2014 that Mapeza took over a club team with Platinum FC , which he led to fourth, third and second place in the Zimbabwe Premier League. At the end of March 2017, he took over the senior national team for the sixth time, initially again in an interim function.

successes

As a player

• 1 × Zimbabwe Premier Soccer: 2004
• 1 × Chibuku Cup: 2004

As a trainer

• 1 × Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League: 2008
• 1 × Chibuku Cup: 2014

Web links

• Player profile at bundesliga.at
• Norman Mapeza in the 90minut.pl database (Polish)
• Norman Mapeza in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wiesław Grabowski z wizytą w Polsce (Polish) afrykagola.pl, accessed on June 1, 2017
2. ↑ Grabowski slams negativity (English) herald.co.zw, accessed on June 1, 2017
3. ↑ Of the lovely game with Shutto (English) ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. chitungwiza.co.zw, accessed June 1, 2017 
4. ↑ The Legacy Of Darryn T allafrica.com, accessed June 1, 2017
5. ↑ ^{a b} Mapeza pleased by Galatasaray reunion (English) weekendpost.co.zw, accessed on June 1, 2017
6. ↑ Which Zimbos have played in the Champions League (English) dailynews.co.zw, accessed June 1, 2017
7. ↑ Mapeza'nın Ada seferi (Turkish) hurriyet.com.tr, accessed on June 1, 2017
8. ↑ ^{a b} Mapeza completes Pompey Switch (English) bbc.co.uk, accessed on June 1, 2017
9. ↑ ^{a b} Pompey sign Celtic-Starlet (English) skysports.com, accessed on June 1, 2017
10. ↑ SV Ried signs Zimbabwe's team player Mapeza derstandart.at, accessed on June 1, 2017
11. ↑ The Rieder are unbeatable as a bargain hunter , OÖNachrichten of March 6, 2001, page 41
12. ↑ Mapeza superstar? , Sportzeitung "of February 6, 2001 Page 7 Section: Football
13. ↑ Glücksgriff without a hook , Kurier of March 9, 2001, page 26, department: Sport
14. ↑ Mapeza to Zimbabwe , OÖNachrichten of March 17, 2001, page 41
15. ↑ Hiden and Mapeza are leaving Rieder! , Kronen Zeitung of April 27, 2001, page 44
16. ↑ Mapeza must reckon with consequences , OÖNachrichten June 8, 2001, page 31
17. ↑ Mapeza played with marked cards , OÖNachrichten from August 21, 2001, page 40
18. ↑ Futbolda TEKME tartışması (Turkish) hurriyet.com.tr, accessed on June 1, 2017
19. ↑ Mapeza quits As CAPS Coach Assistant (English) allafrica.com, accessed on June 1, 2017
20. ↑ Mapeza Joins Ajax (English) allafrica.com, accessed June 1, 2017
21. ↑ ^{a b} Zifa picks Mapeza for Warriors post. In: New Zimbabwe. May 5, 2010, archived from the original on March 30, 2018 ; accessed on January 18, 2019 . 
22. ↑ Mapeza Appointed New Monomotapa Head Coach (English) allafrica.com, accessed June 1, 2017
23. ↑ Monomotapa claim Zimbabwe title (English) bbc.co.uk, accessed on June 1, 2017
24. ↑ ^{a b c} Mapeza still interested in Warriors job (English) thestandard.co.zw, accessed June 1, 2017
25. ↑ Mapeza to continue managing Zimbabwe (English) goal.com, accessed on June 1, 2017
26. ↑ Norman Mapeza Quits As Caretaker Coach (English)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. radiovop.com, accessed June 1, 2017  
27. ↑ Mapeza tipped Zim-Job (English) kwesesports.com, accessed on June 1, 2017
28. ↑ FA Appoints Former Player Norman Mapeza As Coach (English) voashona.com, accessed on June 1, 2017
29. ↑ Zimbabwe's coach suspended on suspicion of manipulation , APA of February 8, 2012
30. ↑ Asiagate: More players suspended (English) ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. zimdiaspora.com, accessed June 1, 2017 
31. ↑ Mapeza, Dinyero in Dreamland (English) zimbabwe-today.com, accessed June 1, 2017
32. ↑ Mapeza replaces Mutasa at Platinum (English) ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. newzimbabwe.com, accessed June 1, 2017 
33. ↑ Mapeza revels in glory herald.co.zw, accessed on June 1, 2017
34. ↑ Norman Mapeza appointed Warriors caretaker coach (English) soccer24.co.zw, accessed June 1, 2017