Gamondi: time will tell

The Young Africans Sports Club head coach Miguel Gamondi has promised club members and supporters to relax as the new season approaches to star promising them better performance in all competitions his team will be involved.

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The Argentinian coach is currently with his team in South Africa preparing the various tournaments ahead of them starting with traditional rival Simba Sports Clun in the Community Shield match slated for 8th August, 2024 at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam.

Young Africans are in South Africa for intensive pre-season training, which includes friendly matches against top flight teams ahead of the NBC Premier League and the Champions League.

  • The coach  has made very clear that he is not going to make a mistake by  underestimating some matches in ant of the pending  tournaments, adding that him every match will be taken seriously starting with win the Community Shield which last year was won by Simba.  Young Africans lost that match  3-1 on penalty shootout after the two teams had finished a grueling 120 minutes without a winner.
  • The green and yellow shirted team will begin its African Champions League campaign against the Burundi’s champions, VitalO in qualifier match. Thereafter, Young Africans will meet the winner between SC Villa of Uganda and Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in the second round.
    However, the biggest buzz for the fans is the front row built by Pacome Zouazou, Aziz Ki, Clatous Chama and Prince Dube where Chama and Prince Dube.

The head coach is acutely aware, however, that notwithstanding plenty of highly talented players in his squad, a lot of work is required to being done in the training sessions.

In South Africa, Young Africans took part in the  Toyota Championship Cup  in which it lost 1-2 to Bundesliga giant FC Augsburg in a friendly at the Mbombela Stadium before posting a 1-0 win against TS Galax in another trial on July 24, at the same stadium before  meeting Kaizer Chiefs in the Toyota Championship in South Africa.
Ahead of the forthcoming NBC Premier League, Young Africans has bolstered its squad by recruiting  five new foreign players- Cletus Chama, Jean Baleke, Prince, Dube, Boka and Abuya. It has as well recruited two local players- Khomeini and Aziz Andambwile both from Singida Black Stars

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