Oostende’s big party
ing a touch to control the ball, connected it first time, giving it a spin that lifted it past the ‘keeper to produce the perfect lob, from outside the box, for the ball to fly home.
The beautiful goal has charmed a lot of neutrals and many respected analysts with journalist Zaid Khan posting a video of the strike on the authoritative Goal. com website under the headline, “watch Musona’s great goal against Marseille,’’ and going further to suggest that Kaizer Chiefs “could really do with the Zimbabwean’s quality.”
The South African Citizen newspaper also posted a video of the goal on their website and said “KV Oostende forward Knowledge Musona scored a brilliant goal against Olympique Marseille in a Europa third round qualifier on Thursday night.”
Musona’s agent Paschalis Tountouris, the founder of Prosport Europe, also posted a video of the goal on his Twitter page describing the goal as a “fantastic lob’’ and “top class.’’
“Knowledge Musona fantastic lob for @kvoostende vs Olympique Marseille for the EuropaLeague #TopClass@KMusonaofficial.’’ Tountouris travelled to Marseille to watch the match.
Tomorrow, Marseille’s AllStar Team are in Oostende for the second leg of their qualifier and the Belgians, who were accompanied by about 1 000 fans to France for their battle in Marseille, are preparing for a party as European club football comes to town for the first time tomorrow night.
It has been a long wait for KV Oostende for a home dance with European club football since their formation in 1904, but tomorrow night they get their chance when they host Marseille at their compact Versluys Arena which has a capacity of 8 432.
“We lost 4-2, but we put a great performance in the Vélodrome. And who knows we’ll put this in our Versluys Arena right next Thursday? All the way to a full house,’’ KV Oostende said on the social media platforms.
Musona has also been following his beloved Warriors and on July 9, after the team won the COSAFA Castle Cup, tweeted, “Well Done Guys!! Zim Warriors ndokuti bhora ka Congrats to the team and the whole Nation.’’