All the best Yanga

Yanga are the only one surviving in the continental championship’s second rated club tournament after three others were bundled out in early stages.

Keeping aside our domestic football popularity, we all need to rally behind the team by providing support as well as injecting motivation.

Soccer has been and will possibly be the country’s most loved sport going by its pedigree. Playing at home to the Congolese champions give Young Africans the entire advantage to earn the three allotted points from the game should they win.

However, this is cannot easily be achieved as the Mainland champions ought to put up splendid performance to keep at bay the visitors.

Yanga fans and the rest of the soccer stakeholders are advised to fill the National Stadium in an effort to provide support and boost up morale for the home boys.

Coach Hans van Pluijm knows what it takes to sail through the match and collect the three valuable points at this group stage quarterfinal series.

It’s Yanga and Ghanaian Madeama tems that are still looking for their first points in the series after losing their opening matches to Algeria’s Mo Bejaia and TP Mazembe teams, respectively. Losing is agonising but still there are five matches to be played by all teams in the group including Yanga.

Everyone knows how competent are TP Mazembe going by their rich football history across the continent. This rich background might not be reflected on the field of play as it will be a different day, and history is there to change as well.

Probably the most important point o underline here is for coach Pluijm to impart his boys with heavy psychology that they are winners all the way to the final whistle.

Beating Congolese teams in continental championship has been the most conspicuous hurdle by the Tanzanian teams if history is to prevail in tomorrow’s encounter.

We hope Yanga coach has prepared his players with what it takes for a tem to post victory over the visiting side.

It’s high time now a Tanzanian team has reached at this stage of continental football.

For Yanga this is their second attempt to feature at this stage of continental championships after their maiden appearance in the lucrative Champions League group stage phase in 1998. It has been a long stint by the team which now is supposed to cross over the barriers and make their presence felt through excelling.

With determination and will, it is possible Yanga might emerge victorious in tomorrow’s game and keep alive their dream of progressing into the semifinals of the CAF Cup championships.

However, what remains as a potential reminder is that while we will be behnd them cheering on the terraces, it is their duty to shuffle their cards in the right way on the field of play.