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Robson Sharuko
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BERNARD Marriot has been a happier man, in the past five days, after Dynamos won back-to-back games for the first time this season.
The Glamour Boys bagged the Independence Cup, after edging rivals Highlanders, who gave a number of their fringe players a chance to showcase their talents, on the big stage.
DeMbare then followed that up with a hard-fought 1-0 win over a battling TelOne on Sunday for their first league win at Rufaro since their spiritual home reopened its gates to Premier league action.
Given the pressure he was under, amid a run of poor results, Marriot must be a relieved man right now.
Marriot is the ultimate survivor, a character he has used to good effect to beat all the challenges he has faced, legal or otherwise, to take sole control of Dynamos.
He probably also deserves a place in the FIFA Hall of Fame, and in the Guinness World Records, as the youngest man to ever play a part in the formation of a top-flight football club.
Marriot was between 14 and 15 years old when the founding fathers of Dynamos met in Harare to establish the club, which would grow to be the most successful, and biggest, in this country.
That was in 1963.
At that age, he was probably a schoolboy who, somehow, had the capacity to realise the need to join his community’s elders to establish a football club.
Court records show that Marriot is 76 this year.
This means that he was born in 1948.
By 1963, when the DeMbare founding fathers met to form their club, Marriot was between the ages of 14 and 15.
It’s very unlikely that there has been another person, who was this young, who took part in the formation of a football club of the magnitude of Dynamos.
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