Newly-promoted CIWU promise to play competitive soccer

CIWU director Jonathan Moyo says his team is not going into the Zifa Southern Region Division One League to make up the numbers but to compete with a view of one day playing in the Premiership.

CIWU were promoted last week after finishing as runners-up to Toronto in the Bulawayo Province Division Two league.

“We are going to sit down as the executive in the next few days and draft a road-map for the tough task ahead. This is a new territory for us, so a lot of work needs to be done if we are to survive. We are not coming into Division One to make up numbers. We are going in there to compete and we have a wish to play Premiership football some day.

“In our first year, we will be there to learn and consolidate our position as we do not want to be in and out of the league. At this level that we are in we will need funding so that we continue with this great work,” said Moyo.

CIWU started off as a social club in 2014 before they joined Division Three in 2015 where they qualified into the Zifa Division Two League.

Their first dance in Division Two was a difficult campaign that saw them relegated only to buy a franchise to participate in the 2017 league which they finished as runners up and thereby qualifying into Division One.

Moyo said he was happy that hard work and perseverance had paid off. He said what started as a dream had turned into reality.

“At the beginning of the season, my target was to finish inside the top five but the team surpassed all expectations and mounted a serious title challenge.

“We know what to expect but we are committed to standing our own and make a difference by producing young players of the highest quality on and off the field. Everyone involved with the team will have to pull up their socks and rise up to the new challenge,” said Moyo.