‘Good morning Gabon’, was the Mmegi Sport headline as soon as the Zebras confirmed their graduation from boys to men in 2011. It had been a long and rough road, littered with unending heartbreaks, and which attracted constant ridicule and the unenviable nickname, The Whipping Boys of Africa.
Successive local and international coaches, had tried so hard to put more pace to the Zebras gallop, but despite taking the ‘Zebra’ to the river, they failed to make it drink.