Historic Zebras moment fading into distant memory :: Mmegi Online

In March 2011, in far flung N’Djamena, Chad, a handful but exuberant Zebras fans huddled in a pile of undiluted joy. The Zebras had climbed to the highest echelon in their long history, which had, until then, been littered with endless heartaches. But since that achievement, it has largely been lumps of disappointment, as the Zebras battle to reproduce the glorious moment, writes MQONDISI DUBE

‘Good morning Gabon’, was the Mmegi Sport headline as soon as the Zebras confirmed their graduation from boys to men in 2011. It had been a long and rough road, littered with unending heartbreaks, and which attracted constant ridicule and the unenviable nickname, The Whipping Boys of Africa.

Successive local and international coaches, had tried so hard to put more pace to the Zebras gallop, but despite taking the ‘Zebra’ to the river, they failed to make it drink.

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