Notwane Goalkeeper Returns To Chiefs

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent | Monday June 18, 2007 00:00

 

Maposa last played in May 2006, days before he was involved in a car accident next to Botswana Television. He has now disclosed to Monitor Sport that he would soon be back in action but for his former club, Mochudi Centre Chiefs where his two brothers Noah and Steven are stars. Before moving to Notwane, he played for Chiefs where he alternated between the posts with younger brother and current Under-23 goalkeeper Noah. He says he is not going back to Notwane because they abandoned him during his injury. 
'I am planning to come back during the transfer window which opens before the end of this month but there is no way I can go back to Notwane because I feel that they do not value me. Imagine that during all this time while I was nursing my injury, no one from there bothered to help me or even check how I was doing. I feel that the club officials should have supported me even though I sustained injuries outside the field of play,' he said bitterly.
The 23-year-old claimed that some officials at Notwane turned him back when he went for training for the just-ended season. 'I had just joined the team for training one day when the late Banks Panene told me that he has been instructed to stop me from training because I had disappeared from the team. Just imagine. I had been going through a tough time like that and suddenly people accuse me of disappearing,' he said.
This is not the first time Maposa has accused a team of not supporting him. At one stage during his time with Chiefs, the controversial goalkeeper stopped training after he accused the then Magosi management of not fulfilling promises and failing to support him when he was injured.
The goalkeeper says football has frustrated him and he decided to quit after his injury from the accident but he has now changed his mind. He said that part of the reason he wanted to quit was that he had expected to make life out of the game but this has not been possible. He said he is returning to Chiefs for sentimental reasons.
'To me Chiefs is like  (my) family. That is where my career took off. I have got a job at Sahara Computers and I would not be that desperate to earn any money in football. Noah and Steven have been pestering me to return and I have finally decided to leave money out of the game,' he said.