Milton Mashasha Sports Reporter.
Harare. (News of The South) – The Former Zimbabwean 2015 Champions Chicken Inn take their pre-season preparations for the upcoming season to Malawi invited by Malawi Champions Nyasa Big Bullets for a four team Invitational tournament.
The Joey Antipas coached Zimbabwean club will battle it out with the Mozambican giants Clube Ferroviario de Nampula who are regular participants in the African Safari representing Mozambique.The Malawian club Be Forward Wanderers FC will be the fourth club in that round robin.
The Chicken Inn coach,Antipas has brought quite a number of new quality players in his squad to strengthen and beef up the team in order to fight for honors. The new acquisitions include the trio of Valentine Kadonzvo,Panashe Mutasa and diminutive Brett Amidu all from Dynamos fc,Sipho Ndlovu from neighbors relegated Bulawayo City whilst Clive Augosto,Donovan Bernard and Tichaona Chipunza were signed from Ngezi Platinum.Also Malvin Gaki was brought in from Harare City as Antipas fortifies every department.
Joey Antipas will take this invitational tournament seriously to shape,try combinations and guage his squad’s strength and weakness against such strong regional clubs.
Chicken inn played a practice training match on Thursday against Bulawayo City who are preparing for life in the southern division one lower league,they came out victors in the first match winning by 2-0 margin whereas in their second match they drew (0-0) nil all.
The tournament came at a good time for Bulawayo based club as they were looking forward for preparatory friendlies before the start of the upcoming season which is expected to kick start at the end of the coming month of March.Chicken Inn are expected to travel to Malawi this coming week with a full complete squad and are due to partake in that tournament in the first weekend of March.
Meanwhile,the Bulawayo giants Highlanders fc were in Dulibadzimu, Beitbridge this afternoon playing against Beitbridge Select. Highlanders won the first match and they went on to win 2-1 in their second match in the same venue.
Whereas in Harare,the Harare giants Dynamos fc are also in serious business in their rebuilding exercise under the lanky 54 year old former developmental gaffer now in the helm of DeMbare technical department since the departure of Lloyd Mutasa due to under performance,poor results.
Chigowe’s men are playing practice training matches week in week out with their former returnee son Edward Sadomba on fire scoring in almost every match they have played so far alarming warning shots to other PSL participants in the upcoming season.
Ultimately,only time will tell,time is running short for the clubs to sort out and finalize their squads before it is late.It is rumoured from close sources that all is not well at Caps United as the players are allegedly to have gone for an industrial strike citing nonpayment of their dues derailing all the preparations for the upcoming season as Lloyd Chitembwe tries to work on new combinations with new acquisitions in the form of former Highlanders speedy merchant Gabriel Nyoni,former Hwange,Bantu,Talen Vision and Highlanders hard running forward Newman Sianchali and former Triangle United speedy winger Phineas Bhàmus who once played for the Green Machine Caps before shifting base to Triangle just to mention but a few.Its sad news for Chitembwe,now there is an urgent need for quick solution by the Farai Jele and Tutisani led management to act before things go out of hand lost time will never be recovered.
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