Mares wow fans with special sing-along performance

Celebration time: The Mares beat Burundi 4-2 on Monday night. PIC: BFA
Celebration time: The Mares beat Burundi 4-2 on Monday night. PIC: BFA

If it were a musical performance, the stadium would have reverberated with ‘encore, encore’ as the Mares dished a near-flawless football lesson. The blue, black, and white nation, watching the girls in far-flung Morocco, nodded with approval at the end of a thoroughly satisfying display, reports Staff Writer MQONDISI DUBE

If there were jitters ahead of the Mares’ debut performance at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, the fears were emphatically banished as Burundi was put to the sword in a 4-2 drubbing on Monday night.

It was another night where the nation had congregated to rally behind one of their own and it turned out to be a special night.

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