Young Santos are the Tshikosi champions

Mukula Young Santos were crowned the champions for the Tshikosi Off-season Soccer Tournament at the Makonde Home Defenders grounds last Sunday. This after they had beaten Folovhodwe Stone Breakers 2-0 in the final.

Young Santos took home R5 000 during a ceremony held at the grounds shortly after the final. Santos’s way to the final went via Tshidimbini Brave Lions, whom they beat 2-0 in their opening match. Their quarterfinal match was against Musasenda Big Five, whom they crushed 4-0 two weeks ago. Young Santos beat Sambandou United Professionals 2-0 in their semifinal match at the same venue last Saturday to secure a place in the final.

The runners-up, Folovhodwe Stone Breakers, were presented with R2 500 during the ceremony. The third-placed side, Sambandou United Professionals, received R1 500 and Khubvi Dangerous Darkies (fourth), took home R750. United Professionals beat Dangerous Darkies 3-1 in their losers’ final match.

According to one of the organizers of the tournament, Mr Norman Ramahada, the tournament will be an annual event.  A local businessman, Mr Hulisani Tshikosi, sponsored the tournament.  

Date:19 August 2016

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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