When the whole country gets happy
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Dynamos are easily the biggest and most successful football institution in Zimbabwe and when they are on song they create tremors that are widely felt on the whole landscape.
With the oft-bandied about seven million fans generally accepted as the size of their following, one fanatic once spoke in hyperbolic terms and told Gamechanger right in his face that DeMbare’s supporters actually number up to 15 million although Zimbabwe’s population stands at around 14 million.
As such, each time the blue-shirted boys do well some euphoria erupts across the entire breadth and length of the country that the catchphrase “Nyika yese iri kufara” has been coined to capture this elation. And it is buzzing!
Not that Yours Truly is of a Dynamos persuasion and counts among its faithful; it is only that Friday Football Echoes has huge reverence for this great club whose hallowed achievements are of peerless distinction.
Now, DeMbare have managed to stitch together a winning run, which once briefly took them to the top of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League log standings, and the whole country got happy.
Right now they are within shouting distance of the leading pack and firmly among the pacesetters and the whole country is blissful.
Back at their favourite hunting ground, Rufaro Stadium where they enjoyed a winning resumption after dispatching Triangle on Sunday, the whole country gets elated. With some of their players having so far shone for the Glamour Boys in starring roles that have thrust them in the running for a prestigious slot among the finest XI that grace the football calendar as soccer stars of the year at the end of the season, among whom include captain, Ocean Mushure and Cameroonian striker, Christian Ntouba Epoupa, the whole country is in high spirits.
As things stand, the DeMbare supporters can afford to blow their own trumpet, especially so as they are safe from flirtation with the mid-table misery and their cross-town rivals, CAPS United are wallowing in the drop zone.
As a sweetener, they are comfortably perched above eternal adversaries, Highlanders and all this leaves the whole country in jubilation. And when former Bosso captain, Thulani “Biya” Ncube, confesses his secret admiration for DeMbare (“When I was young blue was my favourite colour, so it was only natural that I would support Dynamos because I had good friends there like Desmond Maringwa.
But when you lost such a game to Dynamos you would hear about it the whole week when we went to the Warriors camp.” as he told our sister publication Sunday News), it only lays bare how much blue blood runs in some when their hearts beat to DeMbare. Yes, such is the strong gravitational pull of Dynamos that many find irresistible; and when that happens, the whole country, indeed, gets happy.
Little wonder then ex-Dynamos skipper, Memory Mucherahowa, in his autobiography: “Soul of Seven Million Dreams” boldly declared that the Harare giants are the real deal on the local football front.
It’s Game On, Play On!
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