Two tricky hurdles for Black Leopards

The NFD League teams will play two league matches within the space of four days. After playing their weekend matches, they will again fight for league points next Wednesday, October 29.

Black Leopards will fly to Durban this afternoon. They will battle it out for league points against Royal Eagles at the King Zwelithini Stadium. Next Wednesday’s match will be against another KZN side, Thanda Royal Zulu. This one will be played at the Thohoyandou Stadium.

According to the Leopards caretaker-coach, Mr Joel Masutha, their aim is to win all their remaining matches and gain outright promotion to the country’s elite league at the end of the season. He reiterated the fact that no team will stand in their way, taking into account the fact that they had recently signed three skilful players, Mumuni Abubakar, Ntokozo Mbhele and Bongani Manana. Manana scored their opening goal against Maluti FET College last Saturday.

Next Wednesday’s match against Royal Zulu is scheduled to start at 15:30.

Witbank Spurs will host Lamontville Golden Arrows at the Puma Rugby Stadium tomorrow afternoon. The other fixtures for tomorrow are: Thanda Royal Zulu vs Highlandspark, Vasco da Gama vs FC Cape Town, Maluti FET College vs Milano United and Baroka FC vs African Warriors.

The full fixtures for next Wednesday are: Black Leopards vs Thanda Royal Zulu, Jomo Cosmos vs Witbank Spurs, FC Cape Town vs Maluti FET College, African Warriors vs Vasco da Gama, Highlandspark vs Cape Town All Stars, Garankuwa United vs Santos and Milano United Royal Eagles.

In the meantime the spokesperson for Black Leopards, Mr Berry Ramunenyiwa, has encouraged the fans to buy the tickets for next Wednesday match at Computicket on time, saying no tickets will be sold at the stadium.

Date:24 October 2014

By: Frank Mavhungu

Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990.  He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.

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