A Correspondent-Dynamos Football Club has written to the Zimbabwe Football Association ZIFA requesting them to approach the authorities and ask them to award the late George Shaya with a Hero status.

Shaya (77) passed away early Tuesday at his home in Glen Norah, Harare.

Shaya is the only player to be named Soccer Star of The Year five times, in 1969, 1972, 1975, 1976 and 1977.