Harare — HE has made headlines in the United Kingdom and has amassed several trophies and medals for his exploits as a rugby player in the English National Division Two league and even received the "Royal Seal of Approval" from the British media, yet he is unknown to his fellow countrymen.

His efforts in the circuit would make many go green with envy yet he has remained unknown in his own motherland. Probably his major setback would be lack of exposure to the local scene as he spends most of his time in UK.

He has fought bruising battles against English premiership stars including Danny Cipriani, one of the uprising stars; Dan Leo, a Samoan international and Jeremy Staunton, an Irish international.

In his first season with his first English team -- Blackheath Rugby Club -- he got the Best Newcomer Award out of the three that were given out in the 2004/05 season. This was a major boost for him.

During the same season, he propelled his team to win the Middlesex Club Sevens Tournament to qualify to play at the Twickenham Stadium against some premiership sides.

He has played against Hugo Monye, who is currently in the England squad (and has just returned from the Lions tour of South Africa).

He has played for the county of Kent Under-23 squad during its tour of France.

He was invited to play for one of the Samurai Sevens teams and also for Corso Marauders Sevens team. Samurai and Marauders are among the top invitational Sevens teams on Sevens circuit. The invitational matches he was invited to play in are too numerous to mention.

In the 2006/07 season, he made it into the Kent senior team and has played in many invitational matches such as the London Wasps' Monday night A-league matches. His regular Sevens team is the Gilbert Stoned Pups who have been regular quarter finalists in the Amsterdam Sevens tournament.

He was accorded the Player of the Season award after scoring 30 tries for his current side -- Old Elthamians -- during the 2008/09 season. This earned him mention in the Rugby Times magazine.

Playing at Blackheath, one newspaper wrote, "he has been showing his opponents a clean pair of shoes with his marauding runs down the wing".

He at times was hired by companies or schools to hold coaching sessions for kids and schoolchildren.

This star palyer is Prince Moyo and was a winger with Blackheath, a National Divi-sion Two rugby club in London.

After finishing A-level at St Johns College in Harare, Prince decided to have a gap year in the United Kingdom and work in the physical education department of a school in London.

One of the teachers at the school was a forward coach at Blackheath and invited him to training. He impr-essed the club coach -- Mike Friday, who is the ex-England Sevens coach -- who immediately signed him up.

His intention after the gap year was to join the Sharks rugby academy of South Africa while studying sport science, but this was not to be as Blackheath agreed to pay for his university fees -- studying towards an accounting and finance qualification at Greenwich University -- while he played rugby. That was all he wanted.

But the 24-year-old's dream of continuing playing for Blackheath has been shattered after the Rugby Union of England altered visa regulations and "I am no longer eligible to play in the top five divisions (national league) of England".

As a result, he has moved to another team -- Old Eltham-ians -- who were in the London 3 lea-gue. He hel-ped the team win the league title last season and they have been promoted to London 1, where he can play without the need for visa requirements.

Though the visa requirement bit impacted on his aspirations to move his game higher, he is content he has earned some experience.

"It was quite an opportunity being given time to play against international players," he said.

He has also undergone trials at a championship side -- a league below the premiership -- and hopes this will give him a shot to shine again in English rugby.

He has been training with Zimbabwe Sevens squad, but "just to keep myself fit". He thinks the national squad is "doing fine, but probably needs to have a bigger player base".

Prince said his most me-morable match would be the Twickenham tournament in 2004 because it was a big event and the fact that he was still a youngster playing at such a big stage for the first time.

In his final year at high school, Prince was vice-captain of the Mashonal-and Under-18 side.