Black week for national teams
Friday, November 23, 2018
The team, with a number of seasoned Premiership players, was expected to fully utilise home advantage, but meekly surrendered towards the end, as the two-legged tie turned on its head at home.
The return leg on Tuesday was always going to be a mammoth task, and it proved just that, although the Young Zebras managed to hold the Malawians to a 1-1 draw. However, the result was only sufficient to knock them out of the Olympic Games qualifiers, at the first hurdle. While the Young Zebras were being bundled out of the Olympic qualifiers in Blantyre, thousands of miles away, in Mauritania, the Zebras were receiving a routine 2-1 beating.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...