Africa-Press – Tanzania. YOUNG Africans have confirmed they expect to give veteran midfielder Haruna Niyonzima a befitting farewell during their league match against Ihefu at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam tomorrow.
It will be the last home game for Yanga this season as they will be compelled to travel to Dodoma for their final encounter of the campaign versus Dodoma Jiji on July 18th. Elaborating on this yesterday was the club’s Information Officer Hassan Bumbuli who said they have prepared a unique ceremony to hand Niyonzima a well deserved farewell to go along with his remarkable service at the club.
“I want to urge many Yanga fans to flock at the venue in big number to witness the historic event which has never happened in the country. He deserves a heroic farewell that is why we want many people to descend at the stadium,” said Bumbuli.
The Rwandan locomotive midfielder is leaving behind a good legacy in the country’s Mainland Premier League as he succeed to perform best at Yanga and Simba, the two biggest clubs in the country. He is going to be the second player after Nadir Haroub ‘Cannavaro’ who was also given a perfect farewell after his long term service at the Jangwani Street based club.
In another development, Yanga said the prevailing unity in the club has contributed a lot to enable them embrace transformation which its members unanimously passed during the Annual General Meeting (AGM). At the recently held AGM in Dar es Salaam, all members who turned up nodded to club transformation thereby endorsing changes to some of the clauses in their constitution in order to accommodate requirements of transformation.
Speaking in the city recently, the club’s Chairman Mshindo Msolla said they are now enjoying unity in the club even though there are some few people who always say NO even to good things.
“I can say the level of unity has now reached 95 percent and that played a big part for the members to concede constitution amendment for the sake of attracting transformation. “We still have people who try their level best to drag backwards any positive thing we employ at the club and they need to schooled about the importance of moving abreast with the modern world,” he said.
Clarifying more on the transformation, Msolla said until now, they are following all the steps which government requires that is why everything is progressing well.
“The good thing is that our transformation procedures were transparent and inclusive meaning that thorough consultations with concerned authorities are made before making conclusions,” noted him.
Again, Msolla gave credit to the current team’s technical bench saying they are doing a recommendable job to instill discipline among players a thing he said is healthy for the club prosperity.
“Remember I am also a coach by profession and the most important thing for a team to succeed is for the players to have discipline… with that, I can say so far so good with the technical panel,” he said.
