Orlando
Pirates a soccer club that is rooted from the most recognised historical
townships in South Africa, Soweto, Orlando East was for a very long time eight
years to date the most disappointing soccer club ever. Let me break down how it
used to just spiral down for Pirates. First of all it would make it in all the
leagues, play all the way to either the semi finals or the finals and lose at
the end leaving its fans with great pain and sorrow but hopelessness never
seemed to destroy their love and loyalty for their team. Orlando Pirates has
been on the winning streak since last year 2011 and is now known to be the best
soccer club in South Africa as it has won five times in a row just last year
alone. Its victories include The Absa Cup, Telkom Cup, Ned Bank Cup, MTN Top8,
Premier Soccer League as well as the first Black Label Cup tournament between
its biggest rival in soccer Kaizer Chiefs. Oh Pirate also just won the resent
2012 Premier Soccer League championships. I wonder whether Pirates is either
using good strong traditional muthi (herbs), or are united in a Higher Power or
whether the players are all disciplined in training, perhaps their last and
current coaches have been nothing but strategically excellent in the way they
execute the game plan through the players on and off the pitch, maybe there is
good management within the club itself. Well whatever it is that they are doing
is certainly working for them. With all the victories that Pirates have
achieved I guess the club’s perseverance and the fans’ loyalty has been worth
it. The question is however how long will Pirates keep winning, as we all know
that the fuel eventually runs out when you forget to refill the tank, in other
words will Pirates stick to the same strategy, or will it make detrimental
changes like some clubs have of which I will not mention and anyway Christmas
as we all know it is not every day. Maybe the players will eventually have such
a big ego that they won’t even think of kicking the ball in front of them, or
perhaps this lucky streak of theirs will eventually run out, but then again has
it been luck or is Orlando Pirates just happens to be blessed for now or...
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