Can we please have some little bit of comradeship to develop our football, urges the ‘Young Master’
BALFOUR PARK – Malandela Mighty Heroes' Vincent 'Young Master' Rammoni wants Alex teams to sing from the same hymn sheet and pull in the same direction in order to get one of their own in the Absa Premiership.
One of Alexandra’s young and most promising coaches has called for a much stronger spirit of comradeship among teams in the Alexandra Northrand Local Football Association.
Malandela Mighty Heroes’ newly appointed SAB League coach, Vincent ‘Young Master’ Rammoni was speaking in an interview with Alex News at the unveiling of his SAB League team’s jersey at the Fives Futbol arena on the rooftop of the Balfour Park Mall.
The jersey unveiling was part of the launch of the second phase of the club’s sponsorship and partnership with a corporate and commercial law firm, Bowmans which also included a festival of ‘comradeship’ games between the newly assembled Mighty Heroes’ SAB League outfit and Bowmans’ candidate attorneys.
Rammoni, who also goes by the nickname of ‘Pep Guardiola’ after Manchester City’s astute manager in the English Premier League, said a little bit more of the comradeship spirit would go a long towards realising the township’s objective and goal of having an Alex team in premiership football.
“This dream can never materialise if we as the football family don’t act in unionism and also get our teams in Alex to sing from the same hymn sheet. It’s import that we all pull in the same direction so that we can finally achieve this elusive dream,” Rammoni said.
He added that all was not doom and gloom as some teams usually come to the party and are more than willing to release some of their best players to teams fighting promotion in the various rungs of the football ladder. “But I think we need a little bit more of that comradeship to see us through the home stretch.”
Teams in the Soweto LFA are said to always discuss every season as to which club they would like to promote to the next level and then plough all their best resources and talent towards the success of that team. This is the reason why they have so many teams dominating in every football league, including the premiership.
“The problem we have in Alex football is that we practise the principle of each man for himself and God for us all. We don’t look at the bigger picture and try and achieve that goal. Everyone wishes it were him up there, to make history and become the first team from the township to play premiership football, forgetting that we all have to work in unionism to achieve it.”
Currently, Alex has four teams, Malandela Mighty Heroes, Gunners, Setheo United and the newly promoted Black Poison, all campaigning in the SAB League while three, Alex United, Baberwa FC and Alex Black Aces, campaign in the ABC Motsepe League, which is a precursor to the National First Division now known as the GladAfrica Championship.
Alex has no team in the GladAfrica Championship and Alex United has been a perennial survivor in the ABC Motsepe League from its days as the Vodacom League, then the Safa Second Division League and now the ABC Motsepe League.
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