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HATS OFF TO OUR OWN AFRICAN CONQUERORS

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Police side Royal Leopard might have crashed out of the CAF Confederations Cup, but one thing I can guarantee is that the nation is not at all ashamed of their performance in the competition.


My colleague, the Sports Editor Lwazi Dlamini, summed it up last month when after the team’s heroic display in Luanda against Petro de Atletico that ‘siyatichenya nge-Leopard yetfu.’ 


To borrow from his ever rich vocabulary; uMlangeni unashamedly and rightly so, heaped glowing tribute to the team saying; Never have so few done so much for so many.
Here is a team that has defied all odds in Africa despite coming from a semi professional league. Leopard have claimed the likes of Bidvest Wits and Petro Atletico in the competition, and to lose to reigning CAF Champions League runners-up AS Vita of DRC should not be shameful in anyway.


Instead, Ingwe Mabalabala have to lift their heads high knowing that they have once again hoisted the country’s flag high enough for the whole of Africa to take notice. Their achievements are an illustration that not all is doom and gloom in football.


But, the good run in Africa should give those at helm of the country’s football an opportunity to do an introspection of themselves on how they can remedy the ills that are always pulling the sport backward.


The honest truth is that there is plenty of potential to succeed, and Leopard have demonstrated just that in CAF club tournaments.

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