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Fungai Muderere
DIVINE Lunga’s agent, Mike Makaab Mpohas has addressed the reports linking his client with an exit from South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns in January.
The grapevine has it that the Bulawayo Mpopoma bred Lunga could leave the club on a loan deal or offloaded should the club fail to secure a temporary move away.
However, speaking to Soccer Laduma, Makaab denied that Sundowns could release Zimbabwean defender Divine Lunga in January.
“It’s not true. That’s not true that Lunga will leave the Brazilians in January,” Makaab told Soccer Laduma.
Lunga’s contract with Sundowns is set to come to an end in June 2025. Lunga is a former Chicken Inn and Ajax Hotspurs defender who previously turned out for Golden Arroors in the South Africa top league.
Lunga moved to South Africa in 2018 when he joined Arrows and made 73 league appearances for the KwaZulu-Natal club, which finished fourth in the PSL; their best topflight finish in history. In his first season at Arrows, Lunga was only substituted once in 24 league starts, as Arrows finished 10th on the league table.
He went on to make 23 league starts when Arrows finished the league campaign in 12th place in the 2019/20 season, and again being substituted once and coming from the bench on two occasions. In his last season for Arrows Lunga made 26 starts and came off the bench once. Lunga won the 2015 Castle Lager PSL title with Chicken Inn FC on the local front.
derick.khumalo