Mutasas back in the limelight
THERE was no spring in the step at all for the Mutasa family during the month of September in 2018.
It was indeed a forgettable spring season, which left the father, Lloyd, equating himself to Jesus, who was sold out by Judas Iscariot, after he was sacked from his post as Dynamos coach on September 27, 2018.
The youngest son in the footballing family, Panashe, who was then still only 19, also followed his father out of DeMbare, before his young career took a nosedive.
Wisdom, Panashe’s elder brother and a nomad of repute was having a torrid time finding his feet at CAPS United who dumped him at the end of that 2018 season. From a highly-rated starlet who captained the Young Warriors during the 2015 All-Africa and 2016 Olympic Games qualifiers, Wisdom deteriorated into a wanderer, who changed clubs without much success.
The 27-year-old midfielder has played for local Premier Soccer League clubs FC Platinum, ZPC Kariba, Dynamos, CAPS United, Black Rhinos and Bulawayo City in the last eight years.
It was eight years of trial and error for the man whose recent stint with Bulawayo City ended in disharmony, after he went
AWOL, only to surface at Mozambique giants, Costa do Sol, where he is now trying to rebuild his career.
Wisdom now plays as a striker and scored his first goal in his third appearance for Costa do Sol last weekend, the same weekend his young brother Panashe was also destroying Chicken Inn in a local Premiership game.
Panashe is now shining at Premiership newboys Tenax after injury forced him out at Chicken Inn three years ago.
Their father Lloyd is also enjoying “a perfect stint” at Eastern Region Division One runaway leaders Green Fuel.
After the gloom of 2018, it appears the sun is shining again for the Mutasas.
“I have this feeling that this year could be a year for the Mutasa family and we thank the Lord for that,” Lloyd told The Sunday Mail Sport.
This sounds too different a sentiment from the one Mutasa made when he was sacked at Dynamos, after he was blamed for the team’s poor results, which saw DeMbare fighting relegation that season.
“The leadership felt I was no longer needed and I accept it. If Jesus was sold out by Judas Iscariot who am I to have hard feelings over people,” said Mutasa in October 2018.
Back then it also seemed there were conspiracies against the soft-spoken gaffer. Mutasa bounced back into the PSL as Rahman Gumbo’s assistant at TelOne, during the second half of the 2019 season, but the duo failed to save the Gweru-based side from the chop.