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Sport Date: 24 May 2002
THOHOYANDOU – In a bid to beef up their current squad, Black Leopards Football Club will be conducting trials at Vuwani tomorrow, Saturday 25 May.
The trials will be conducted at the Tshipakoni Secondary School ground starting at 09:00.
According to the Chief Executive Officer of the club, Mr Aaron Thidiela, the roadshow will proceed to Mutale on Saturday, 8 June. Saturday, 15 June will see them going to scout the players on the Western side of Louis Trichardt at the Zoutpansberg District of SAFA.
Talented young boys who reside at Musina and the surround area will be put to the test on Saturday 22 June. The venues and starting times for Mutale, Soutpansberg and Musina, will be confirmed in due course, according to Mr Thidiela.
He stated that they will conduct the same trials at Malamulele and Hlanganani on the dates and venues still to be confirmed. When asked how they were intending to conduct the trials without the team's coach, Thidiela stated that their development coach, Mr Reginald Matloga, will lead the panel that will be selecting the players whose future in football looked bright.
Mr Thidiela appealed to interested players to bring along their own training equipment and to be punctual.
Black Leopards parted ways with their coach, Mr Gavin Hunt, on Monday this week. The Cape Town-born Hunt left Leopards to pursue his career with Moroka Swallows.
Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990. He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.

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