Bitter rivals come together to concoct potent Poison for SAB League teams
JOBURG -– A former Dra coach now concocts the very same potent Poison that led to his downfall in the ANLFA Promotional League.
Soccer coach Mosala Mafikeng who last coached Dra FC and took them to within a whisker of winning the Alex Promotional League, has found a new home.
Mafikeng now concocts the potent poison as assistant coach and analyst of SAB League side Alex Black Poison, his former bitter rival in last season’s bruising Alexandra Northrand Local Football Association (ANLFA) Promotional League and the team which eventually won promotion while his Dra outfit settled for second position.
Poison were promoted to the South African Football Association’s (Safa) SAB League, which is run by the Safa Joburg Region and is one of the regional leagues operating in Safa’s 52 regions in the country.
Teams in this league vie for a spot in the ABC Motsepe League as they climb the upper echelons of the football ladder on the road to the prestigious Premier Division of the Premier Soccer League. From the ABC Motsepe League, teams fight their way to the National First Division that is a precursor to premiership status.
“I joined Black Poison soon after leading my former team, Dra FC, to the championship of the ANLFA Top 8. I am the new assistant coach to Wiseman Nkabini, who won promotion with the team, and I am in charge of the analytics side of our games,” said Mafikeng, speaking on the
sidelines of the grassroots coaches’ empowerment programme, the Powerade Performance Academy at the Wanderers Club.
The Qwa Qwa-born coach said Poison were doing unexpectedly well in their maiden season in the SAB League, occupying third spot on the log with 21 points from seven games in which they won five and lost two, with two games in hand. Only a point separates them from the second team on the log, Tembisa’s Tsamaya Boys while Opopo FC leads the pack.
“As maidens of the league, ours is mainly to get to understand the workings of this league while at the same time aim to announce our arrival. We have reinforced our previous squad of the ANLFA Promotional League with five strikers. Our mandate is not to win the league or do something extraordinary but to do the best of our abilities, if that best is winning the league then let it be,” Mafikeng said.
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