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Sundowns star Yannick Zakri not playing ball with pregnant lover

Picture credit: Lee Warren/Gallo Images
Picture credit: Lee Warren/Gallo Images

Mamelodi Sundowns' Ivorian striker Yannick Zakri has scored a goal in the bedroom after allegedly impregnating one of his South African girlfriends.

Zakri, pictured, who has two goals to his credit since joining Sundowns, allegedly blasted the reproductive net of Tshwane North College student Natasha Mukobela.Mukobela, 22, said she found out that she was pregnant in August and told Zakri that she wanted an abortion but he refused.

"He said he will not allow me to kill his child," said Mukobela.

She said they met in January and started having sex like bunnies.

"I met him through a friend. Everything was fine between us. We did a home HIV test before having sex and when we found that we were both negative, we decided to not use a condom right from the beginning," she said.

Mukobela said that during happy times, the couple spent a lot of time at Zakri's Kempton Park apartment.

She is now six-months pregnant and claims that she does not have a place to stay as her family disowned her.

"My father is a pastor, so when he wanted to find out who the father of my child was and if we were dating, I could not give him a solid answer.

"He kicked me out of the flat that I was sharing with my sisters," she said.Mukobela said Zakri was now indifferent and told her that he had a wife who had since relocated to South Africa.

"He says he will help me financially when the baby is born. He has never even given me money to go to the doctor," she said.

"He makes promises but never delivers on them."

Zakri had not responded at the time of going to print after requesting to be called at a later time. He did not pick up his phone and failed to respond to SMSes.

Mukobela's best friend Tamara Dodo said that she also tried to speak to Zakri about helping her friend, but he kept on making promises he never kept.

Mukobela's sister, who did not want to be named, confirmed that their father wanted nothing to do with Mukobela.

The desperate Mukobela said she also approached one of the managers at Sundowns to help her drum sense into Zakri's head but to no avail.

Sunday World reported last week how another girlfriend accused Zakri of marrying his Ivorian wife behind her back, after claiming he was going home to see his sick mother.