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MZILIKAZI High School has set its sights on reclaiming its status as the country’s soccer powerhouse by lifting next month’s Copa Coca-Cola winners’ medal. The national finals of the Copa Coca-Cola tournament will be held in Bulawayo on the weekend of July 18-19.
Mzilikazi won the inaugural edition of the tournament staged in 1989, and the school believes it has what it takes to lift the championship after bowing out in the semi-finals last year.
The school, which produced the likes of the legendary Peter Ndlovu, the late Benjamin Nkonjera, Johannes Ngodzo, Esrom Nyandoro, Belgium-based Vusa Nyoni and Mamelodi Sundowns’ Kuda Mahachi, among others, sent a statement of intent last Saturday by lifting the Orap-Zenzele Boys’ Soccer event held at Gifford High School.
Mzilikazi High School headmaster Bhekokuhle Dube said his team was ready to make Bulawayo proud.
“It’s good that the Copa Coca-Cola tournament returns to Bulawayo and as defending provincial champions, we are hopeful of sailing through to the national finals. Most of the players that we used for last year’s edition still qualify and we are banking on this continuity to propel us to national victory,” said Dube.
Mgandani, as Mzilikazi is fondly known, will, among other players, bank on Gift Lunga Jnr and Germany-bound Devine Khumalo.
Khumalo and Oriel Boys High School’s Leeroy Willie were selected to attend the Copa Coca-Cola international training camp in Germany from July 26-31.
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