Mayor speaks on 1993 season with Bosso Legends

Lovemore Dube

METHEMBE Ndlovu has become a point of reference in Zimbabwe football history.
He is spoken of with affection and stands as a mark for those who think have done well at Highlanders in the last 20 years.

But without the championship in the cabinet, their achievements fall into significance. The league title is the prime target of all the clubs in the Zimbabwe Castle Lager Championship and since 2006

Highlanders has struggled to win that title.

Coincidentally Methembe was the coach of the team that clinched Bosso’s eighth league championship in the club’s history.

Since then many a great player has come on board and retired or left without the elusive title.

B-Metro caught up with him from his United States of America base where he spoke about the championship he won as a player in 1993.

He was among the youngest players in the side that had several Warriors players in its midst.

Despite being young and small in frame, Methembe showed glimpses of a great talent in the making standing his ground among some players who could make a claim to Highlanders All-Time List.

“There were special players,” he said before going on to name them.

“Boy Ndlovu was a mesmerising winger we idolised growing up. He was a great dribbler and a very nice and gentleman. He was a pleasure to get to know as a person,” said Methembe.
Netsai Moyo

He was a similar character to Boy, they were very kind and encouraged junior players.
Madinda Ndlovu

Madinda was a legend and it was a pleasure to get to play with someone you grew up idolising. He and Adam were like big brothers. I remember one time I got into a minor accident and I called him and he came straight over and helped me deal with the situation.

When I replaced him as coach at Highlanders he is the first person I called when he was in Botswana and he was very supportive and gave me a lot of advise which must have been hard to do having just left the club.

Rahman Gumbo

Rahman was the same. When I first got into the senior team Rahman used to joke that my job was to defend and then give him the ball to play since he was more experienced. But he was a great motivator and I got to play for both of them when they were starting out as coaches.

Peter Nkomo

He was also a big personality in the dressing room and was a good organiser and communicator during games, you always felt confident when he was in goal.

Mercedes Sibanda

He was very humble, funny and generous. He was tough as teak on the field but very easygoing and a people’s person off the field. All these players we used to have in our soccer books so it was a great pleasure to play with and learn from them.