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Sport - Date: 03 June 2011
Black Leopards regard their 1-3 defeat at the hands of Orlando Pirates in the final of the Nedbank Cup at the Mbombela Stadium last Saturday as history, said the team’s general manager, Mr Sam Khaphathe.
He told Limpopo Mirror earlier this week that the team is now preparing for the platinum promotional play-off matches, which start next Wednesday, June 8.
The draws for the platinum play-offs were conducted at the league offices two weeks ago. The play-offs will be played in a two-leg format. Black Leopards won the first home-ground advantage. Their first-leg match will be against Vasco da Gama at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane.
A look at the history of the two teams shows that Leopards and Vasco da Gama have unfinished business. Vasco da Gama denied Black Leopards promotion to the Absa Premiership division last season, when they beat them 3-2 on aggregate.
Although Lidoda Duvha beat Vasco da Gama 3-2 in their quarterfinal match for the Nedbank Cup three weeks ago, Khaphathe feels that they had not done enough to hurt the Capetonians. “We want them to feel the very same pain we felt when they denied us promotion last season,” said Khaphathe.
Their second-leg match will be played at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on Saturday, June 11. The winner in the two-legged fixture will meet the winner between Thanda Royal Zulu and Bay United. United failed to make the grade two weeks ago when they lost 5-4 to Jomo Cosmos in their stream champions promotional play-offs.
Cosmos have secured a place in the Absa Premiership division next season, following their victory over Bay United.
Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990. He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.
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