Sports Mwaikimba, Ngasa sink Yanga
December 21, 2011
by DAILY NEWS Reporter
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BAD BOY IS BACK
Yanga midfielder Athumani Idd ‘Chuji’ wins a tackle against Azam FC’s Abdi Kassim (right), when the teams clashed in a friendly match at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. Azam beat Yanga 2-0.
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MRISHO Ngasa and Gaudence Mwaikimba scored a goal apiece against their former club, as Azam FC outplayed the Mainland Champions Young Africans to inflict them with a 2-0 defeat at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday.
Yanga did not field an under strength side as widely expected, as Serbian coach Kostadin Papic deployed all his weapons but still Yanga were the second best.
Azam pulled the trigger minute before the interval, when Mwaikimba stepped up to convert a spot kick awarded to his team after Ngasa was bundled down in the box.
After the break Ngasa netted the second goal, connecting past Yew Berko a corner kick taken by new recruit Abdi Kassim.
Azam ought to have won the match even by bigger margin but John Start Hall’s men wasted several clear cut chances with Ivory Coast striker Kipre Tchetche, Mwaikimba and Ngasa being the main culprits.
Yanga also missed several chances as first choice strikers Ghanaian Kenneth Asamoah, Hamis Kiiza and Pius Kasambale failed to translate them into goals.
The special match was organized by Unity in Diversity Foundation (UDF) aimed at raising funds for paying storage expenses for the institution’s imported wheelchairs that are currently at the Dar es Salaam port.
UDF co-ordinator at the national level, Enock Bigae, said the institution had imported three containers of wheelchairs to be distributed to different disabled people in the country and previously owed storage expenses amounting to 120m/- to the Dar es Salaam port.
Both teams also used the match to shape for the last lap of the top flight league scheduled to kick of next month. Meanwhile, heavy downpour in Dar es Salaam left Yanga counting losses after a wall at the club’s training ground of Kaunda collapsed.
The club’s Information Officer, Luis Sendeu, said no one was injured. The training ground also turned to a soaking mess. Yanga have also stepped up training ahead of their crunch Champions League preliminary round fixture against Egyptian giants Zamalek and used the yesterday’s match to identify areas of weakness.
Yanga will host the Egyptians in the preliminary round of the 16th Champions League on the weekend of February 17 to 19 in Dar es Salaam and the return leg match will be on the weekend of March 2 to 4.