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Author: ELKANA KUHENGA<\/strong>
\nAfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> TENSION, excitement and fever are apparent as the Premier League clubs are busy finalising preparations for the 2020\/21 season openers this Sunday.<\/p>\n

The season openers come\u00a0 after the end of hectic transfer window and the pre-season\u00a0 drills whose\u00a0 activities were much dominated by three Dar-es Salaam-based giants; Simba, Young Africans and Azam.<\/p>\n

Prior to its kick off, the trio stole the show with varieties of activities most notably Simba Day, Mwananchi Week and Chamazi Sports Festival, all three had a huge attendance.<\/p>\n

Also, though lacked a huge attendance, teams like Namungo, Mwadui, Kagera Sugar,Mtibwa Sugar, Mbeya City and the newly promoted Gwambina and Dodoma Jiji had a fairly good show in the transfer while on other hand\u00a0 relegated teams like Mbao and Alliance recorded the biggest loss of key players.<\/p>\n

Heading into the season opener, it will be a skill-showdown between home groomed players and the imports besides the usual team-work and competitiveness.<\/p>\n

Young Africans will parading a Serbian, Zlatko Krmpotic, in the club\u2019s zeal to challenge Sven Vandenbroek success after helping Simba to lift three major titles.<\/p>\n

League enthusiast\u00a0 are hoping to see the best from Kenyan Joash Onyango, Zambian Larry Bwalya\u00a0 while their traditional rivals Yanga will be banking on Congolese Tuisila Kisinda, Tonombe Mukoko\u00a0 and Angolan \u00a0Carlos Guimar\u00e3es do Carmo “Carlinhos”,<\/p>\n

Azam, who finished third overall, are also\u00a0 heading for a specular start, and the club\u2019s skipper, Agrey Moris has called upon the club\u2019s fans to join hands and support their transition after the completing the signings of new squad members.<\/p>\n

The skipper noted these as he spoke with journalist at Azam Complex Stadium in Chamazi, Dar es Salaam where he insisted that his squad is determined to show quality but they only need time to build connection between players.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call upon all our supporters to maintain their trust and support to our squad, as they are so essential to ensure the players spirit grow and unified.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful seeing our squad is getting better every day, and the competition has been great and every player has been committed too. Looking at the technical bench everyone is doing their job perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Azam have signed Novatus Dismas who won the Mainland Premier League Young Player of the Season award, Alain Thierry\u00a0Akono from Cameroon, Prince Dube from Highlanders FC of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

Other players include goalkeeper David Kissu, defender Emmanuel Charles, Awesu Awesu, Ally Niyonzima, Ismail Aziz and Ayoub Lyanga.<\/p>\n

He added that \u201cin this year we have set a goal to do well so I call upon our fans to come in large numbers on Monday and support our club as it face Tanzania Prisons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Azam will begin their title race as it face Tanzania Prisons at their home stadium Azam Complex.<\/p>\n

In pre-seasons Azam FC faced Prisons and ended with a 1-1, won 1-0 against Kinondoni Municipal Council and 2-1 against Namungo FC.<\/p>\n

In 2019\/20 season, Azam finished third overall after collecting 70 points from 20 wins, ten draw while losing eight games.<\/p>\n

At the top were Simba who lifted the throne after hauling 88 points, followed by Young Africans who bagged 72 points and at the fourth were Namungo FC with 68 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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