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Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>TANZANIA\u2019S flag bearers in CAF Champions League, SIMBA have an advantage to beat their hosts, FC Platnum in their CAF Champions League match tomorrow because of their match fitness.<\/p>\n

The club\u2019s chief executive officer, Barbara Gonzalez said yesterday their opponents have not been seriously active for about a year because of various reasons including Coronavirus pandemic that has hit many countries globally.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe is one of the countries that are still hit by the wave of Coroanvirus and because of that Barbara said that the whole team are taking all necessary measures like wearing masks and sanitising for their safety. Speaking on match fitness she said \u201cSimba have played a number of matches including those of CAF Champions league in the preliminaries plus several others in the Mainland Premier league,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an advantage for us ,\u201d said Gonzalez. She said also that Platimum, despite being at home, will be playing at a new ground, hence losing their home supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are not residing in Harare, their home city\u2019s weather is as hot as Dar es Salaam,\u201d \u201cThey are therefore acclimatising with the cold weather here in Harare like the same we do here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

However, she also said that the Harare weather do not bother his players since it is similar to that of Mbeya and Arusha where Simba played a number of Premier league matches. \u201cAccording to weather forecast reports, there is a possibility for the rain to pour down tomorrow during the match and we have put our mind ready for that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Simba are in Zimbabwe to play host Platinum FC at the National Stadium in Harare in the CAF Champions League\u2019s first leg encounter tomorrow. The two sides will meet again at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam early next year. Barbara Gonzalez said the players are responding well to the training sessions imparted to them before the crucial match.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire squad comprising of 24 players and technical bench members plus other leaders of the club are all well looking forward to the game. \u201cWe had a good reception made by our Tanzanian ambassador to Zimbabwe, Emmanuel Mbenna, Zimbabwean football Federation and FC Platinum officials, \u201cWhat we request at this juncture from our members and fans wherever they are, including all Tanzanians is to pray for their team, to win so that we can have an advantage while heading to the reverse game at home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Se continued: \u201cWhen we win, it means the whole country has won, that is why we call upon all Tanzanians to give us full support.\u201d To reach this stage, Simba crashed out Nigerian side Plateau United by an aggregate of 1-0 courtesy of an all important away goal netted by locomotive midfielder Clatous Chama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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