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Young Zimbo shines in US

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PROMISING United States-based Zimbabwean football player Farai Mutatu is in the running for top honours in that country after he was nominated for the US Youth Soccer 2012 Goal of the Year Award.

PROMISING United States-based Zimbabwean football player Farai Mutatu is in the running for top honours in that country after he was nominated for the US Youth Soccer 2012 Goal of the Year Award.

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The 13-year-old Mutatu, who plays for TNT Dynamite U-13 Boys Red team based in Michigan, is one of the 10 nominees for the annual award.

Incredibly, he is the youngest player in the list dominated by players aged 16. The nomination process was open to all US Youth Soccer players within the age range of 6-18 years.

The winner will be announced at the US Youth Soccer Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the US Youth Soccer Workshop at the NSCAA Convention in Indianapolis on Friday next week.

Mutatu scored his tandem bicycle kick which proved a winning goal in April last year during the first game of the season against a team called Scor.

The goal came off a set piece that was flicked into 18-yard box and Mutatu showed some great flexibility, coordination and athleticism by bicyclekicking the ball into the net.

The winner is determined by the soccer fans who vote through an online voting process at USYouthSoccer.org. The voting process began on Monday and ends on January 15.

US Youth Soccer is non-profit and educational organisation whose mission is to foster the physical, mental and emotional growth and development of America’s youth through the sport of soccer at all levels of age and competition.

It is the largest member of the United States Soccer Federation, the governing body for soccer in the United States with over three million youth players between the ages of five and 19.