Benny’s Care the local Coke champions

Benny's Care Soccer Academy were too strong for Hudson Ntswanwisi High and beat them 1-0 in the provincial final of the Copa Coca-Cola U/15 competition at the Makhuvha Stadium on Saturday.

Hudson had nobody to blame but themselves for the defeat. They squandered numerous obvious chances in the first half. The leading goal scorer, Charles Montjane, could not live up to his reputation as he was well contained by Khathutshelo Raulinga. Rebone Ntsoane and Joseph Mokolo of Hudson should have scored more than twice each, but it was clearly not their day to be famous.

The team from Nkowankowa matched Benny's punch for punch in the first half, but their original stamina faded. Benny's then started to take command of the game, searching for goals. The pressure increased on their opponent's defenders, who continuously made mistakes. The guys who were giving the Hudson defence a terrible headache were Vukosi Sithole and Sihle Chabalala.

Ntlakuso Rikhotso should have put his team ahead when the match was 64 minutes old, but his shot was saved by Hudson keeper Danny Peta. Both sides frustrated their fans a great deal by wasting obvious chances. Legora Mmatlou scored the only goal of the day after he finished off a square ball from Douglas Magonono.

Benny's will represent Limpopo in the national championships, which will held in Durban early in October.

Sport - Date: 19 September 2014

Kaizer Nengovhela

Kaizer Nengovhela started writing stories for Limpopo Mirror in 2000. Prior to that he had a five year stint at Phala-Phala FM as sports presenter. In 2005 Kaizer received an award from the province's premier as Best Sports Presenter. The same year he was also nominated as Best Sports Reporter by the Makhado Municipality. Kaizer was awarded the Mathatha Tsedu award in 2014.

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