Can Chunga spoil it for Mapeza?

TWO of Zimbabwe’s celebrated football legends Norman Mapeza and Moses Chunga will try to outwit each other when their clubs FC Platinum and Harare City clash at Rufaro Stadium this afternoon as the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League race reaches a thrilling crescendo.

Mapeza, who became the only second Zimbabwean player to play in the UEFA Champions League after goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar, appearing in the competition for Galatasaray in the 1990s, leads an FC Platinum side who are just five wins away from winning their first ever league title in their short history in the top flight, having been promoted in 2011.

Regarded as one of the best Warriors ever, and spoken about in the same breath as luminaries such as Peter Ndlovu — his team mate in the famed Dream Team — Mapeza knows that winning the remaining five matches will land him the league title, his second in his coaching career having accomplished the same feat with Monomotapa eight years ago.

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