adminSikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
LEGENDARY footballer and coach Madinda Ndlovu is 360 minutes away from winning his third straight Botswana B-Mobile Soccer League title.Ndlovu, a Highlanders legend, won back to back league titles with Mochudi Centre Chiefs in the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons before dumping them for Township Rollers.
Township Rollers are enjoying a three-point lead at the top with four games before the season wraps up after recording 15 wins, nine draws and just two losses.
Second placed Botswana Defence Forces have 51 points following their 2-1 weekend loss to Extension Gunners while Khathazile’s boys chalked up a 1-1 draw to Botswana Meat Commission.
Speaking from his base in Botswana yesterday, the former Warriors player and coach said pressure was mounting on his charges but they remained focused.
“We are concentrating on the remaining games, its getting tight,” said Ndlovu who continues to shine in the Botswana league after he was crowned the elite Mascom Top Eight Award Number One Coach on Thursday last week after winning the tournament with his club.
He is also the reigning Botswana B-Mobile Coach of the Year and is the favourite to land it again this year.
Meanwhile, former AmaZulu strongman Costa Nhamoinesu’s Czech Republic side, Sparta Praha have opened up an eight point lead at the top of the standings with eight games to go before the end of the season.
Nhamoinesu, a regular in the squad, remains one of the few Zimbabwean players enjoying game time with a top European side but has constantly been snubbed on numerous national team call-ups.
In Belgium, it was a clash of Zimbabweans when former Masvingo United and Gunners player Ovidy Karuru and former Highlanders player Vusa Nyoni’s sides clashed in the relegation play-off.
Nyoni’s Mons came second best, losing 0-2 to Karuru’s OH Leuven.
Nyoni though was an unused substitute while Karuru played the whole 90 minutes. The teams will now clash in the second and final round to decide who gets the boot to the lower league.
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