ALLOW me to dust off my denial on you, Dynamos “Dembare” Football Club, is the biggest team in the land. I didn’t quite get to know this through their escapades in the 2007 premiership and CBZ Cup triumphs, rather at some Macheso show in a sticky, stinky, stuffy township joint.
Macheso is belting out Tererai and suddenly the fans chant, Gwekwerere tamba bhora, Gwekwerere tamba tione. Ah, really! Macheso joins in and takes us up the lane of Zimbabwe football starting with the littluns, finally gets to the bigguns on song. He urges the Bosso fans to rise up and there is some sizeable yeahs (it’s H-town territory anyway). Alick bellows “Makepekepe simukai tione!” to a thunderous ovation; stops in his tracks, moves backwards, one thinks he has forgotten, then suddenly surges forward and thunders “MaDembare tambai tione,” still on song mind you. The house tears down; almost everyone, to my utter sharp shock, leaps for the roof. What a roar, call it Saturday Nitro, if you dare americanising.I shake of my denial there and then, Dynamos is the biggest in Zim.
It’s parabens to Dynamos Dembare for earning two top titles on the local scene. In the final calendar eleven, they have their five share. The sun is shining on Murape “Monya for Hire” Murape as current king; the small man is big game killer when hired. David Mandigora is coach of the year. The 2007 package for MaDembare is total.
There is something always curious about Dynamos from disinterested third parties. Each time the team beams something approaching success, some story is thrown to clonk the works. Its boardroom quarrels this, the old guard is trying wrestle kingship that, or it’s the players demanding more pay. Ever heard some motivation theory called two-factor. Dynamos better get hygienic.
David Mandigora nearly lost his seat in the premiership “coach-lose -a-job campaign” courtesy of some loud mouths and obviously dump followers. Somebody educate us, what’s the difference between supporters and fans.
Hey, maybe there are better days bearing down on Dembare. Their skipper Justice “Chief Justice” Majabvi sums it up for 2007, it was due to hard work, determination and self belief in the team. I like this part, “self belief”. That’s better than always parroting “raring to go”.
We don’t see why self belief can’t be shouldered all the way to their 2008 African excursion. Remember in the 1990s, when Cameroon was in the doldrums economically and politically, Rodger Milla was there as the solitary flag bearer, unlocking the value of the rain forest.
Dynamo-Dembare can do it in the African Panorama. (Unless some goofie Chamu Musanhu style defender decides to chest the ball into the paws of on-rushing domitable North African strikers for the whole world to talk.) They reached the finals of a similar safari with average players in 1997, something that is still worth talk on the Zim games terrain. The current team has many similar attributes.
Has David Mandigora’s character got anything to do with kicking the ball well and slaying the Goliath before him? The father figure looks cool most of his times and talks only enough and has none of the executive excesses traceable to one Bambo who vows he will never coach a premier side ever. Never is a dangerous word to use in this rat race.
Lastly, perhaps corporate marketing executives have a leaf to pluck from the warm camaraderie between small time marketers and Dembare.If one is an enterprising barber and wants to clip more heads, it’s the in thing to stick all modes of blue regalia on the workstation wall, it’s enough camouflage. Better still cover one’s cart (chingoro) with blue scuffs to catch the rural bound Dembare faithful at Mbare Musika.
Ear muff alert! Blow your horn blue; with banners flying radially, if you are a tout (hwindi).It’s skin-dip blue for Dembare.
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