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The family has also indicated that the former national team soccer striker would be laid to rest on Saturday in Bulawayo.
Adam’s elder brother, Madinda Ndlovu, a former soccer great himself said the family appreciated the respect that the nation accorded to the former Warriors and Highlanders’ marksman and as such they were open to suggestions that he be accorded hero status.
“If the nation says this is what they want of Adam, we will certainly consent to that, in fact we will feel honoured as the Ndlovu family that one of us has been recognised much as we are already touched by the mere fact of those suggestions,” said Madinda.
The Zanu-PF National Secretary for Education, Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, on Monday said Bulawayo Province has requested that he be accorded liberation hero status.
Ndlovu (42) was killed in a car accident on Sunday morning.
His younger brother, Peter, who is the Zimbabwe senior national team assistant coach, was injured in the same accident when the BMW X5 they were travelling in crashed at the 417km peg near Lupinyu Business Centre near Victoria Falls International Airport.
The Ndlovu brothers were on their way to the resort town to take part in a friendly soccer match pitting Highlanders Legends and the Victoria Falls Soccer League Select Team.
Peter was rushed to Victoria Falls Hospital and later transferred to the Catholic-run Mater Dei Hospital where is admitted.
Many will remember Adam’s dazzling performance against Tunisia in 1991 at Barbourfields Stadium where with younger brother Peter in form, they tore apart the North Africans 5-2.
He scored too many an important goal for club and country and his spell at Swiss club FC Zurich earned him a Switzerland Player of the Year accolade and Swiss FA Cup glory.
He was among the first Zimbabweans after Bruce Grobbelaar in the 1980s to play in the European Winners Cup now the Europa League Cup.
Adam returned home towards the end of 2001 and moved to Highlanders the following year.
From joining Highlanders, Adam who was strong on the ball and a finisher of high precision with either foot and head, having won the 2002 Castle Lager championship, he was off to revive his international career in South Africa.
He played for the Dube Birds, Moroka Swallows. He scored several goals and with age catching up with him at Swallows he later was released and played for Dynamos and Free State Stars. He made it a point to come to Bulawayo every break.
When he retired he went into business and coaching starting with Chicken Inn last year.
His coaching was pregnant with expectations of many good things to come.
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