Yanga’s Ngoma for Cecafa
What you need to know:
- This comes in the wake of reports that Yanga are looking for the player who has reportedly gone AWOL.
Young Africans striker Donald Ngoma will feature for Zimbabwe’s national soccer team, Warriors, in the 2017 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup kicking off on Sunday in Kenya.
This comes in the wake of reports that Yanga are looking for the player who has reportedly gone AWOL.
Ngoma, who left for Zimbabwe without informing his club, is among 28 Warriors players expected to go into camp in Harare today ahead of the Cecafa Cup, according to the Zimbabwe team’s coach, Sunday Chidzambwa.
The squad will be trimmed to 20 before heading to Nairobi, Kenya this weekend, Chidzambwa was quoted as saying from Harare yesterday.
Six years after their last dance with the Challenge Cup, the Warriors will be back at the East and Central African tournament as a guest team.
Ngoma, who has missed many matches since the 2017/18 Mainland Premier League season kicked off, is facing disciplinary action after he didn’t report for duty.
Yanga information officer, Dismas Ten said yesterday that they were surprised by reports that Ngoma left the country without permission.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has organised an international friendly match between the Warriors and Zambia’s Chipolopolo to celebrate the appointment of the new Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangangwa, who was inaugurated on Friday.
The special match set for next month, will be preceded by an encounter between Zimbabwean legends against their South African counterparts, according to The Herald.
Zifa officials, who are reportedly excited by the ascendancy of the former Vice President, have always enjoyed great support from President Mnangagwa.
Early this year, Mnangagwa facilitated for the government to release $1 million for the Warriors during the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Gabon.
Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa said, through football, they will match the President’s mantra of job creation.
In another development, Tanzania Mainland’s soccer team, Kilimanjaro Stars, went into residential camp yesterday ahead of the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.
Kilimanjaro Stars, who were to leave for Kenya yesterday, will now head to the neighbouring country on Thursday for the two-week tournament, according to the Tanznaia Football Federation (TFF). They failed to leave for Nairobi yesterday as earlier announced due to what the national football governing body described as unavoidable circumstances.
They are in Group A in the championship together with Libya, Zanzibar and Kenya.
