Farai Tsingano

**Last statistical update: 14:08, 8 October 2023 (UTC)**

**Farai Tsingano** is a footballer who plays for **Hashtag United** (men).

Tsingano was attached to Brentwood Town around November 2012, notably appearing in an Essex Senior Cup 3rd round tie with Thurrock on 8 November; having replaced Abs Thompson as a substitute in a 2–0 win.

Saint Xavier University
Between 2014 and 2017, Tsingano was turning for the Saint Xavier University football team in the United States as he aimed to kickstart a professional career. By the end of his 4-year stint at the university, he returned to England and later noted that he "had fallen out of love with the game", noting that he "was done with football. I didn’t even like it. I was like, ‘Cool, I didn’t achieve what I wanted to do. Let me just focus on my degree.’" and that he only played the sport "for fun".

### HTU

2018–19
In mid-2018, after meeting Spencer Carmichael-Brown at a charity match that was put on following his friend's brother's cancer diagnosis, Tsingano joined HTU following a number of attempts by Carmichael-Brown for him to sign. He debuted unofficially in a pre-season friendly defeat away to Tilbury on 30 July, prior to appearing for the 1st time competitively in an opening day loss at Little Oakley in the Thurlow Nunn League - Division One South. After making 6 appearances all away from home, the defender appeared for his home bow on 15 September as *The Tags* defeated Harwich & Parkeston 3–2 at Coles Park. Next time out, on 18 September, Tsingano scored the winner as HTU came from 3–1 down to beat Newbury Forest 4–3 on the road.

Tsingano concluded the season with 41 total appearances, as the club secured promotion as champions to the Essex Senior League.

2019–20
After missing pre-season due to being on holiday, Tsingano made a return to the matchday squad for their Essex Senior League opener at home to Southend Manor, as he later came off the substitute's bench in an eventual 2–0 defeat at the EMR Stadium. He subsequently made starts that month versus Tower Hamlets, Redbridge, St. Margaretsbury and Leyton Athletic (cup). Tsingano would regularly feature across a campaign that saw him up his tally of appearances to 76, though the season would end early due to a COVID-19 pandemic-enforced curtailment around March 2020.

2020–21
Upon the Essex Senior League's resumption, Tsingano appeared in all 8 of HTU's pre-season fixtures ahead of the 2020–21 season. A showing in the club's inaugural FA Cup encounter against Park View on 2 September 2020 saw the defender make the 1st of 7 official appearances before an anterior cruciate ligament injury concluded his campaign abruptedly at around the month's end.

2021–22
Having belatedly undergone surgery in October 2021, Tsingano missed the entirety of the 2021–22 season due to his anterior cruciate ligament injury. On 28 April 2022, however, it was revealed that he had been "been given the green light to resume training" in the succeeding August.

2022–23
Tsingano returned to training during the 2022–23 pre-season and was on the bench for their exhibition loss away to Aveley on 2 August 2022. However, manager Jay Devereux erred on the side of caution in the squad update video in regards to his return, stating that the aforementioned "doesn't mean he is ready to play" and it that it "would be a huge bonus" if the defender would feature at all at senior level across the campaign; along with the though that any immediate minutes would instead come with Ricky Evans' reserves. Tsingano would indeed appear at that level, making 6 appearances for the reserve team between August and December - though wouldn't feature for any more than 45 minutes in any fixture and would also "suffer a minor setback" as the year drew to a close.

On 19 January 2023, it was announced that Tsingano had departed *The Tags* to Witham Town via a "gentleman’s agreement" between Devereux and the player as the manager couldn't "guarantee the game time" that he required, though did make clear that HTU "still very much consider" him as part of the club and that he would "return to Hashtag at a suitable time (most likely at the end of the season)". In the subsequent June, with his return for 2023–24 known, he appeared at the 7-a-side TST for HTU.

2023–24
On 21 May 2023, Tsingano confirmed that he would be rejoining HTU at the start of the 2023–24 campaign - with *The Tags* now plying their trade in the Isthmian League - Premier Division following 2022–23 promotion. On 6 October, having started just under a week prior in a Tonbridge Angels friendly, the defender was loaned to Enfield.

### Post-HTU

Witham Town
On 31 January 2023, following on from HTU revealing the news on 19 January, Witham Town publicised the signing of Tsingano. He had already made his debut for *The Town* in a 14 January defeat at home to AFC Sudbury, totalling 79 minutes before being replaced by Kieran Southgate. 4 appearances later, on 14 February, the defender scored his 1st goal for the club during a 2–1 defeat at Heybridge Swifts. To end March, Tsingano netted in back-to-back fixtures as they drew with Hullbridge Sports on 25 March and defeated Coggeshall Town 3 days later. He concluded the season with a final day winning goal in an away triumph at Maldon & Tiptree.

Enfield (loan)
It was confirmed on 6 October 2023 that Isthmian League - North Division team Enfield had loaned Tsingano.

## Personal Life

Tsingano attended Brentwood County High School (2005–2012) and Saint Xavier University (2014–2017). He initially worked in data for GlobalData (2018) and Data Revolution (2019), prior to moving on to recruitment/engineering for Jonathan Rhys (2020), Eurobase People (2020–2023) and LikeMind Recruitment (2023–); having also volunteered for The Queen's Young Leaders (2016–) and Macmillan Cancer Support (2016–).

## HTU Statistics

Breakdown

'*Other Cups' includes competitions like the FA Trophy, the FA Vase and friendly tournaments. See also: HTUwiki:DataIssues.*

Appearances (100)
* List of appearances of Farai Tsingano

Goal (1)
Newbury Forest  v  Hashtag United

## HTU Honours

* Thurlow Nunn League - Division One South (1): 2018-19

## References

1. ↑ "Farai Tsingano" .
2. ↑ "Agony for Fleet at Ship Lane" , 8 November 2012.
3. ↑ "Men’s Soccer Fighting to the Finish" , 24 October 2016.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "“We’re Always Going To Be Hated, It’s Just Normal”" , 18 December 2020.
5. ↑ "Ladies and gentlemen after a long wait, @FaraiT4 has finally had surgery to repair his ACL 👏 The road to recovery starts now 😤" , 27 October 2021.
6. ↑ "EL MONSTRO IS 🔙 He’s back! @farait4 has been given the green light to resume training with us early August 💪 & he’s promised us that BEAST MODE is well and truly 🔛 Who’s excited to see the main man back in action⁉️" , 28 April 2022.
7. ↑ "WHO LEFT & WHO JOINED! - HASHTAG UNITED SQUAD UPDATE 22/23" , 11 August 2022.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "MID-SEASON SQUAD UPDATE" , 19 January 2023.
9. ↑ "Happy with my come back season after my ACL injury 🙌🏾 Glad I could help @Withamtownfc stay up with my goals and clean sheet contributions in only 17 games and picking this up along the way 🏆 Bring on next season @hashtagutd" , 21 May 2023.
10. ↑ "We would like to welcome another recent new signing from @hashtagutd Farai Tsingano and thank @hashtagutd for making this possible" , 31 January 2023.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 "Witham Town - Appearances - Farai Tsingano" .
12. ↑ "Good luck on loan at the E’s @FaraiT4! 🤝" , 6 October 2023.
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Farai Tsingano" .