Andrew
Online Reporter
FORMER Warriors goalkeeper, Edmore “Zi Keeper” Sibanda, is recovering from a serious eye injury and fractured jaws after spending four days in a Polokwane hospital.
The 35-year-old TTM veteran sustained the injuries in a First Division match against Pretoria Callies last week.
Sibanda, who also has fractures around the right eye, had stitches on the cut and is now recovering at home.
He was pulled out after just 24 minutes of the encounter.
“My jaws and teeth were affected badly, right now my eye is heavily swollen and I can’t chew at the moment. I am surviving on fluids and porridge,” Sibanda told The Sunday Mail Sport from his South African base on Friday.
“At least the doctors said my eye is okay, but it will take some time before I can see properly. I just pray all works out so that I can be back at training,” said the former CAPS United keeper.
Sibanda joined TTM in 2021 after spending two seasons at DSTV Premiership outfit Golden Arrows where he shared the dressing room with fellow Zimbabweans Knox Mutizwa and Danny Phiri, the latter who was recently offloaded by his Tanzanian club and is back in Bulawayo.
The big goalkeeper kept goal for the Warriors in the opening game of Zimbabwe’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations clash against hosts Egypt in Cairo, in which Sunday Chidzambwa’s men lost 1-0.
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