David Mandigora, head coach of Zimbabwe's Dynamos, is waving a defiant fist in face of adversity, declaring that his club will bounce back in their CAF Champions League semi-final second leg against Cameroon's Cotonsport in a fortnight's time.
i was priviledged to be seated in the vietnam stand on sunday and as the final whistle blew we all knew that the horizon was closing on us! men of character, dynamos are but it will be their biggest test of character and judging by the proceedings at rufaro, it is sad but we may fail to make it to Japan for the club world championships! For a team that has been re-building and after a 10year absence from continental club championships, we have held our own and defied ALL odds. Watch for us next year.
Glamour all the way! Demabare for life!(if god did not love dynamos, why did he make the sky blue? - food for thought)
Hahahahahahaaaaa!!! Kudos Mr Mandigora, nice try... I really love your fighting spirit, but I would galvanise all energies and resources for next season's campaign, if I were you. You see Dave, what our Garoua-based boys did at Harare, is just a fulfilment of the well-known adage "Impossible is not Cameroonian!" If you doubt that prophetic truth about the Cameroonian people (and I'm sure you do), then please do well to ask the Nigerians (ACON 1984, 1988, 2000), Argentinians (WC 1990), Chile-Brazil-Spain (Sydney 2000), Malians & Senegalese (ACON 2002), Ghanaians (ACON 2008)... The list of incredulous victims is inextensive bros. What makes the whole thing even more improbable for you,is that the Rhumdi-Aja Stadium of Garoua is bashed with a fierce Harmattan wind at this time of the year, and your used-to-high-altitude boys will not just cope with the ever-present scorching heat and atmospheric dryness of the Benoe basin. Sorry ooooh! Anyway, no harm trying... But you can find consolation in the fact that Cameroonians are the most hospitable of all Africans; You will not lack an arm to comfort you or a shoulder to bring you solace, as you lament over your desolation in a week's time. Till then, courage...!
Hmmmmmm !!!!What Mr mandigora has failed to understand is that his team is most powerful at home,though they managed to beat Asec in Abidjan. The Cameroon team is very very powerful in it's fief. He should check on the records of CAF and see. From the creation of Cotonsport, it has never lost a match not even a draw in it's stadium. Even the north African teams known for their dominance on African football have all fallen prey to cotonsport in Garoua. They are however not very enterprising away from home. The error Dynamos made was to allow these guys snatch a victory right in their own backyard. Anyway miracles do happen. I read from some stakers who attributed 0% for cotonsport wining Dynamos in Rufaro but they were proven wrong. Maybe things might also change ,but I'm very optimistic,Dynamos will be eliminated. Well thus is soccer,let fair play prevail. tHERE IS ALWAYS A VICTOR AND A VANQUISHED