Was DRC unconquerable for local players?

Friday, May 29, 2020

Mochudi Centre Chiefs’ 7-0 drubbing at the hands of African giants, TP Mazembe in CAF Champions League in 2013, birthed a surprise flow of local talent exported to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

It sparked a rare switch as Jerome Ramatlhakwana, Phenyo Mongala and Dirang Moloi penned enormous five deals with relatively unknown Don Bosco in 2013.

The trio were not new to playing abroad but had to test waters in the jungles of the largest sub-Saharan country, where civil wars have raged.

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