Project FC hunt for sponsor

for the forthcoming season were afoot. He told Chronicle Sport that the team had already started training with high hopes of causing a stir in the league.
Chishuma said they did not want to go in and fight relegation from the first match.
“The boys have started training and we are so excited about our maiden campaign in Division One. We would not like to fill the numbers, we are in to compete with the best and I am sure with the talent we have we will go far.
“The dream is to play premiership football one day and how long that will take we do not know but one day we will be there with the rest of the big guns,” said Chishuma.
Project are a product of the Hwange Colliery Company Limited-sponsored local league which was a nursery for the premiership team at one stage. Most players from the club’s productive years of the 1970s came from this league. Those that had a bad patch got an opportunity to resuscitate their careers through this league and the company’s Chamber of Mines side.
While hopes are high within the Project’s camp, the club does not have a sponsor. It is a worrying factor and Chishuma said it would be sad for the budding talent not to get a sponsor and see Lusumbami Village residents have their sons playing in the country’s premiership promotion league.
“We are still hoping to get a sponsor, there have been promises here and there. We are hoping we could tie a deal as soon as we can to assure the boys that they have at last realised their dreams,” said Chishuma.
He commended the executive, players and community for their support and commitment to seeing the dream of leaving provincial football for bigger things.
“Winning promotion by dominating the provincial league was no mean task. We are happy to have gone this far and our appeal is to the Hwange and Matabeleland North community to come forward and support us in our venture. We want to create more opportunities for employment and entertainment of Hwange people by becoming the second premiership team from the town,” said Chishuma.
The club was founded among other people by Hwange and Gwayi River Mine FC legend Nyaro Mumba. At first it was a team that took part in the Colliery inter-departmental games before employees resolved to register with the Hwange Amateur Football Association.
Chabuka Mwale, Fanyana Mguni and Abu Milanzi rate among the best players to emerge from the club.
Meanwhile, Malawi-based Johannes Mathe’s Black Bulls have joined the provincial Division Two league. The Empumalanga-based team has a juniors’ section coached by former Makwika-based Brazil star Moses Moze.
It draws young talent from Empumalanga and Makwika and the players converge at least thrice a week for training.
“I stay at Empumalanga, I realised not much was being done to develop the youngsters. My idea was to take them off the streets and vice and offer them another option for life through soccer and I found Moses with something going at Number Three Village (Makwika) and sold him the idea of an academy. We want young players only, that is where the future lies,” said Mathe, an enterprising winger in the Hwange local league during his days.