Rwanda worldwide Zawadi Usanase has formally parted methods with Tanzanian Ladies’s Premier League giants Simba Queens after the membership opted towards renewing her contract forward of the 2026/27 season.
Usanase joined Simba Queens in July 2025 from AS Kigali Ladies on a one-year deal, changing into one of many few Rwandan gamers to safe a transfer to considered one of East Africa’s most profitable girls’s soccer golf equipment.
Though she arrived with excessive expectations and was thought to be an vital addition to the squad, the Rwandan ahead struggled to safe common taking part in time throughout the second half of the season.
As Simba Queens start preparations for the brand new marketing campaign, the membership has opted to reshape its squad, ensuing within the departure of a number of gamers, together with Usanase.
Sources near the membership point out that the Rwandan ahead earned a month-to-month wage of greater than $1,000, equal to over Rwf 1.4 million, making her one of many highest-paid Rwandan feminine footballers taking part in overseas.
Usanase is amongst six gamers launched by Simba Queens. The others are Jentrix Shikangwa, Cynthia Shilawatso, Ernestine Hetchou, Amarachi Odoma and Amina Bilal.
Regardless of her transient spell with the Tanzanian aspect, Usanase gained beneficial expertise taking part in for one of many area’s most adorned girls’s soccer golf equipment.
Simba Queens have established themselves as a dominant power in East African girls’s soccer, profitable a number of Tanzanian league titles in addition to the CECAFA Ladies’s Membership Championship.
