Zimbabwe/Cameroon: Dynamos Ready for Cameroon Battle
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Kickoff (Cape Town)
8 October 2008
Posted to the web 8 October 2008
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.
Mandigora, whose side lost the first leg encounter 0-1 to the Cameroonian champions at their Rufaro fortress on Sunday, declared on Tuesday that his side will turn the tables against their opponents in the return fixture in Yaounde.
"We are not out of it yet. If they managed to beat us home; what can stop us from achieving the same feat at their own home?
"We know that it will be a very difficult task for us but we still have a very big chance of going through to the final," Mandigora told KickOff.com.
The Dynamos coach attributed his side's loss to many missed chances by his strikers, and refused to blame left back, Rueben Mhlanga for the goal he gift-wrapped to the visitors.
"We should have buried our own chances, that is all. We cannot blame one player for the loss because we lost as team and must fight back as a team," said the Dynamos coach.
If they manage to turn the tables on Cotonsport, Dynamos will have shocked the football world for the third time in this campaign, after they dispatched last year's winners, Etoile Du Sahel of Tunisia 2-0 on aggregate to storm into the money-spinning mini-league phase of the competition.
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Just when everyone thought that they were out of the running in the group stages, they bounced back and went through to the semi-finals at the expense of former winners ASEC Mimosas and Zamalek.
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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… [Read Full Text]
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… [Read Full Text]
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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… [Read Full Text]