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Monday, July 2, 2012

Orlando Pirates winning streak


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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