In the final match of this season’s pilot league for women’s football, the Mzomhle High School team won against BCMM Inner City High.
These two teams have dominated the East London Central Local Football Association’s Premier Star Bakeries Women’s Football League.
On August 9, Mzomhle High took home the League Cup trophy and went into the final in the more advantageous position, given that BCMM would have needed to score six goals to claim a league victory over Mzomhle due to the latter’s league standings.
Deputy chair for ELCFLA Vuyo Zambodla said it was a game of two halves with an even balance in strength between the teams. In the first half Mzomhle was comfortably leading 2 -0 and then, as per their strategy, they ran riot late in the game, netting four more goals.
Zambodla says that the teams were able to put on a great performance in the league throughout the year because of the solid management and administration backing each team.
BCMM Inner is coached by Dennis Vukubi, a former Bafana Bafana star, and Mzomhle is coached by Masixole Matyana, a committed community activist, as well as other staff who are prepared to dig deep into their pockets to ensure the team succeeds.
With ELCFLA’s women’s soccer at a close, Zambodla said the association had benefited from seeing women participate in games this year and that going forward more development from ELCFLA would go into improving the pilot league in order to officially make it into a proper league in the future.
On behalf of the LFA and women’s football president Nondwe Nondaka, Zambodla wishes to thank all the teams who participated and especially those who got through the first round, qualified for the second round and persevered to the end.
