Times Of Swaziland: ‘BUFFS’ LADIES MAINTAIN SAME SQUAD FOR CAF

‘BUFFS’ LADIES MAINTAIN SAME SQUAD FOR CAF
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Pholsile Hlophe on 05/07/2022 08:35:00


MBABANE – Young Buffaloes ladies will not make any additions to their current
squad ahead of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Women’s Champions
League to be held in Morocco.
The dates of the tournament will be announced in due course. The hosts were
granted hosting rights by the football ruling body as they were the only country
that submitted a bid to host the event.
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Eswatini will be competing against seven other countries during this continental
women’s showpiece. Young Buffaloes ladies were pronounced champions of the
Eswatini women’s football league after a brilliant display of talent
throughout the tournament, having recorded a clean sheet in 24 games and scored
a record 221 goals. Club manager Bonga Ngcamphalala said they were not eager to
make any changes to their squad, as they believed that their team was highly
competent. He said preparations were in order and the team had a number of
preparatory games with local teams including Buffaloes’ mens team.  “We are
preparing for CAF and the current developments are that we will maintain the
same squad. We had planned to have international friendlies, but we are still
working around that. We promise to represent the country well,” Ngcamphalala
said.
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Ngcamphalala commended the entire team for their outstanding league performance
and also thanked the three Mozambique-born imports Lonica Vasco, Daniel Cidalia
and Ines Celestino, who made a remarkable contribution to their success.
Meanwhile, Manzini Wanderers were the first team to represent Eswatini in  the
CAF Women’s Champions League after being declared champions of the 2019/2020
EWFL, that was cut short following the outbreak of COVID-19. However, they made
an early exit in the group stages.