GOLDEN EAGLES, SIMBA BHORA GIVE FANS A TRUE TASTE OF FOOTBALL ATMOSPHERE

The question every football fan is asking right now is not ‘who was at Ellis Robins yesterday?’, it’s who wasn’t. Promotion-chasing Northern Region Division One rivals Golden Eagles and Simba Bhora clashed in one of, if not the most eagerly-awaited football match this season. For a match in the second tier of Zimbabwean football, the hype it had and the electric atmosphere before, during and after the game, was unbelievable. The Golden Eagles leadership say close to 4000 people attended yesterday’s clash, which saw Dean Chunga rising high to head home a 90th minute equalizer after Knowledge Mapuka had thrust the hosts ahead just after the hour mark.

Big names in local football were in attendance. National Teams General Manager Wellington Mpnadare, Northern Region chairman Martin Kweza, former Warriors defender Dumisani Mpofu, former Warriors and CAPS United forward Alois Bunjira, CAPS United coach Lloyd Chitembwe, Harare City coach Taurai Mangwiro, Dynamos coach Tonderai Ndiraya, his assistants Naison Muchekela and Gift ‘Umbro’ Muzadzi, former Dynamos coach Lloyd ‘Mablanyo’ Chigove, the Harare giants’ chairman Isaiah Mupfurutsa, were all there. (more…)