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Footballers who want boxing know where to go

Football players who want to join boxing know where to go. If they don’t, there is a discipline called boxing and it’s governed by the Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA).

I guess BoBA will welcome new members to its ranks to help grow the sport.

The likes of Matebele FC’s Kenalemang Neo would do well by applying for the BoBA membership. If they feel they have outgrown the amateur ranks, which fall under BoBA, there is a professional boxing body right here in Botswana. Football must be about football and nothing else. That pitch, while square like a boxing ring, is not one. On Saturday, an enraged Neo mistook his goalkeeping gloves for those of boxing.

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