Full name Veweziwa Kotjipati Years Team Number 3 Height 1.6 m | Current team Tus Lipperode Role Football player Place of birth Windhoek, Namibia Name Veweziwa Kotjipati | |
Date of birth (1992-09-28) 28 September 1992 (age 23) | ||
Veweziwa Kotjipati (born September 28, 1992) is a Namibian Women football defender who plays as a right back for Tus Lipperode in Germany who on several occasions can also be utilised as a midfielder or striker.
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She is a player of JS Academy in Namibia, a team that plays in the NFA Women Super League, JS is the current Namibian Champions for the 2011/2012 season. Kotjipati started off with athletics at her school El Dorado High School in Windhoek before she became a footballer.
She is a member of the Namibian Women Soccer team.
Club career
Kotjipati recalls playing her first games in the Nawisa Cup back then, and during the time she was at JS Academy as from 2009, her present was noticed and it later led her to join the senior national side as from 2010 while at Academy. After a couple of good showing with Academy, she then joined the German Women sixth division team, SJC Hövelriege.
Kotjipati joined SJC Hövelriege in 2012 where she managed to score 12 goals in the two seasons that she played for the club.In her first season she had several difficulties to adopting to the new German playing style which resulted in some red card situations, after a while she managed to adapt and became one of the top scorer in the league in her second season
In 2013, Kotjipati alongside another Brave Gladiator Stacy Naris joined Tus Lipperode, a team that plays in the fourth tier league.
Namibia National Football Teams
In 2009, Veweziwa Kotjipati joined the National Under 17 women team and later the Young Gladiators (U/20) and the Brave Gladiators in 2010 which she currently play for. She is one of the few women footballers plying their trade overseas and the experienced picked up in the German league is valuable for the Namibian National side.