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Veronica Gwaze
Zimpapers Sports Hub
WILSON Mensah is not following the Great Exodus unfolding at champions Simba Bhora and says he will remain loyal to the club.
The Shamva side have lost 13 first team players and coach Tonderai Ndiraya.
But Ghanaian import Mensah says he is staying put.
“Simba feels like a home that I really needed since coming to Zimbabwe, a place where you are surrounded by immense love and room to figure yourself out,” he said. I do not despise where I came from but following two turbulent seasons, I was at some point left wondering if I had made a mistake to take up football as a career.”
He arrived in Zimbabwe two years ago and joined Bulawayo Chiefs.
He won the Chibuku Super Cup.
The following season, he was signed by Triangle.
“When I joined Triangle, I felt a bit of relief thinking that maybe the journey would be easier now after a gruelling PSL season with Chiefs.
“However, things did not go my way and I felt that maybe a bad omen of some sort was after me.
“It was a tough season, playing for survival and failing to rescue the sinking ship is the worst thing any player wants to go through.”
He even considered going back to Ghana.
“When you are a foreigner, expectations are always high so you know something is at stake whenever you step on the pitch.
Then, he moved to Simba Bhora.
“With each game, a part of me started believing that something good would eventually come.
“I was surrounded by talent and love so everything felt easy.
“Enjoyed a great season and moving became the last thing on my mind, Simba has been good to me and I feel obliged to return the favour.
“I am hoping for a good campaign at the CAF Champions’ League, that way I will have given them something to smile about just as they did to me.
“I did not see myself winning a championship in Zimbabwe considering my past two seasons but things changed when I came here so I should stay put.”
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