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PETER NDLOVU, the greatest Warrior of all-time, showed the pain of his country’s absence from the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia with a sarcastic message on Twitter on Thursday.
Ndlovu, who inspired the Warriors to two appearances at the Nations Cup finals, asked when Zimbabwe would play its first game at the World Cup.
“When’s Zimbabwe’s first game? #WorldCupRussia2018” wrote Ndlovu.
The message generated a lot of comments. This is not the first time Ndlovu has posted such a World Cup message involving his home country Zimbabwe.
It appears it is a silent cry from the greatest Warrior, who ticked a number of groundbreaking boxes in his great career, as he became the first African player to ply his trade in the Premiership.
He also led his country to their maiden Africa Cup of Nations appearance in Tunisia in 2004.
It is a World Cup dream which, unfortunately, the Mamelodi Sundowns team manager can no longer do much about in terms of playing a part in inspiring his country there.
Maybe, he hopes that the current or coming generations will someday find that winning formula and take the country to the Promised Land.
Considering the fact that Zimbabwe are still struggling to regularly qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations, let alone progress beyond the group stage, at the moment it sounds absurd and far-fetched to dream of a World Cup appearance.
In the run-up to the Russia World Cup, Zimbabwe were disqualified from the qualifiers by FIFA over a debt that ZIFA owed to their former coach, the Brazilian Valinhos and did not even feature in deciding matches on who will go to Russia.
Even the expansion of World Cup participating teams to 48 teams, up from 32 doesn’t really bring joy to this part of the continent.
And interesting responses flooded Ndlovu’s timeline.
One Tamuka Chihoto wrote, “ Only you could take us there Nsukuzonke”.
While another person using the name Teeone on the Twitter handle responded that there is need to have faith
“One day is one day, if Saudi Arabia managed then what can stop us, I see only people without faith commenting here.”
R Ndabezitha wrote that: “When you start coaching Zim boss”.
Peter’s cry came as the Warriors celebrated another COSAFA Cup title in South Africa last weekend.
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