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Bancabc Sup8r 2013: Hefty rewards for Shabanie

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SHABANIE Mine players will be rewarded handsomely for winning the BancABC Sup8r Cup after beating Zvishavane town rivals FC Platinum

SHABANIE Mine players will be rewarded handsomely for winning the BancABC Sup8r Cup after beating Zvishavane town rivals FC Platinum 5-3 in a penalty shootout after an exciting 120 minutes played at Mandava Stadium on Saturday.

REPORT BY FORTUNE MBELE

A senior player yesterday told our Bulawayo Bureau that the club’s executive had agreed that the crisis-ridden club would be sharing the Sup8r pay cheque. The players and the technical team would be getting 50% of the $120 000 prize money.

“The executive guaranteed that will be getting 50% if we win the trophy and as players we are hoping that they will be sticking to that. We played our hearts out yesterday (on Saturday) and I think we deserve that after we had some disagreements before the match,” the player said.

A source revealed that on Friday the Shabanie players briefly broke camp following the club’s non-committal attitude to guarantee the players 50% if they clinched the trophy.

The source said the players had also protested camping at Asbestos House instead of an up-market lodge in Zvishavane ahead of the derby final.

Shabanie Mine chairperson Nephel Rugara’s mobile phone was not available for comment yesterday.

Midfielder Tafadzwa Mombeshora, who won the man-of-the-match award and a $500 reward, had this to say after the match: “We played better than FC Platinum. We followed instructions and played as a team and the 12th man (fans) also had a part to play.”

His coach Luke Masomere was over the moon saying while Shabanie Mine had their own in-house problems, the victory was for the people of Zvishavane while Platinum’s Mutasa said his boys lost the plot in regulation time.

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