[2] He first played with foremost local team, Rio Tinto FC Under-13s (renamed Eiffel Flats in the mid-70s).
[3] He also played for Mangula,[4] as well as State House Tornadoes (1983), and Darryn Textiles in Zimbabwe, before heading to Europe.
Official figures recorded 94 matches, four less than Coventry City star Peter Ndlovu, but he believes he played a lot more.
[2] After retirement from football, Phiri worked at his business in Budiriro, Harare, but it struggled in the face of the economic downturn of the country around 2000, and moved into printing.
[2] In 2014 he was appointed a board member at the Zimbabwe Football Association, concentrating on development.