Football mourns Black Sunday

Sunday was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2013 and has been fighting the ailment since.  On Wednesday the veteran footballer succumbed to the illness at Bokamoso Private Hospital.  The 42-year-old Mahalapye born player was a passionate footballer and he passes on still active in football.  He started playing at St Joseph’s Primary School in Mahalapye as a youngster back in the late 1980s.

He continued with his football at Mahalapye Junior Secondary School and Madiba Senior School.  While in Form Four at Madiba, he joined Mahalapye Hotspurs and helped his homeside to Premier League promotion in 1994 with his lethal prowess in front of goal.  He left the next season for Tirelo Sechaba in Masunga. In 1998, his football led him to the barracks and he joined the Botswana Defence Force where he served as a soldier and consequently played for BDF XI.