LISENETHINI:18\11\2015
This is a football blog dedicated to the promotion of the' beautiful game' here in the Buffalo City Municipality and the surrounding towns like Qonce,Ngqushwa,Dikeni,Gcuwa,Ntab'ozuko,and Rhini.This region of the Eastern Cape has been a hotbed in the production of successful football players in the past years.
We have a number of teams campaigning in the local South African Football Association's ABC Motsepe League as well as based in the above mentioned towns league namely Tornadoes Football Club[Mdantsane],Buffalo Football Club[Amalinda],Angavu Football Club and Future Tigers[Ginsberg].
SAFA-Buffalo City Regional League is the highly contested stream in Eastern Cape structures as it features competitive teams from the East London areas like Parkside,Beacon Bay,Tsholomnqa and Mdantsane the second biggest township in South Africa.
The region also has a vibrant women's soccer league starting from the under 11 right up to the senior ladies teams.The teams campaign in the SAFA Sasol League.Teams like Thunderbirds[Gcuwa],Birmingham City[Ziphunzane],University of Fort Hare[Dikeni] represent Buffalo City.
A junior league also exist and it covers the entire region of the municipality in an effort to promote youth development,curb drug usage and encourage participation in sport.Teams campaign in SAFA Local Football Association[L FA]and are grouped into seven associations namely Bunkers West,East London Central,East London North,Mdantsane,King Williams Town,King Central,King East,Royal Rharhabe.
The most successful youth league set up in the region is the East London Central Local Football Association which dates back to over a 100 years of existence and is based at the North End stadium.It has a produced excellent players like Geoffrey Gamiet who played in the 1979-1989,Nigel Dickson a former Mthatha Bush Bucks goalkeeper as well as Brendan Augustine a former Mthatha Bush Bucks,Ajax player and Bafana Bafana striker during the 90's and went on to play in Austria for FC Lask Linz during peak.
The following teams are so some of the prominent participants in the L FA League Saints Football Club,Swaraj FC,Central United FC,Conquerors FC,Leeds United FC,Millan FC,City Brothers FC and Riverside FC.
Amateur football will also get coverage in this column.Buffalo City has a well organised amateur football league that is structured along township lines in order to minimize traveling costs.Mdantsane,Ntabozuko as well as Qonce fall in the same category whereas Ziphunzane,Parkside,Pefferville,North End,Gompo and Buffalo Flats, also operate there own amateur league.
At the moment Buffalo City has not been producing quality footballers except for Ngqushwa born Super Sport United FC left back Luvolwethu Mpetha.
If only the people in charge could pay more attention to rural areas instead as they do in the urban areas.
ReplyDeletecharity begins at home Skeem,Sturu Pasiya is based here in East London,he can't run a team in Dimbaza.The people of Dimbaza should run there own teams.Hopefully we'll have rural based top flight football teams in the near future.
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ReplyDeletesport is what unites the country, i think the government has to do more to promote and support our local teams
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ReplyDeleteAs much as I'm clueless about sport but I do notice that the government does not give local teams the support they need
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