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Bright, Gino's bread and Coke issues

Gabonamong
 
Gabonamong

Bright was Gabonamong’s coach at Mogoditshane Fighters, Zebras and South Africa’s Engen Santos.

Gino said Bright was like a father figure to him who used to call him ‘Kamakazi’.

“I would ask him what that meant, then he said it was a powerful weapon used in the army,” Gabonamong recalled.

He said Bright used to pick him up while Gabonamong was still a junior secondary school student in Gaborone.

“If it was not him, he would send a Land Rover from BDF to come and fetch me from school. Then after training, he would send me to Spar to buy a loaf of bread and a bottle of two-litre Coke. He would not use a knife to cut the bread, but just his hands. Then he will say ‘look at that zombie he is not a good player’.

He used to call people zombies,” Gino said with a chuckle as he recalled the good times he spent under Bright.

“Each time he took long in training, I would remind him, remember we have to go and buy bread at Spar, as there was hot fresh bread every day. He would laugh and say, ‘ok, son, I will make sure we finish on time’,” he reminisces.