THE clock is ticking towards the
Serengeti Boys 2017 Africa Youth Cup of Nations (AYC) finals on May 14 in
Gabon.
The ticket to play in
the final has initiated a campaign to support and boost the team’s preparations, and the
campaign is now sweeping across the country.
This campaign received
another boost this week when the newly appointed Minister for Information,
Culture, Arts and Sports, Dr Harrison Mwakyembe called upon Tanzanians to rally
behind the team by raising funds to help the team foot preparation costs.
In his conference with
the government information officers in Dodoma, the minister said if one
Tanzanian donates 200/-, it will raise 1bn/- set aside as budget to foot the
team’s preparation and
participation to the continent’s biggest youth finals.
The money is needed to
enable the team pitch a month long camp abroad so that the players can go to
Gabon well drilled and able to overcome threats of tough opponents. We are sure
that well-trained and tactically superior team wins, hence facilitating the
success of the team means helping the country to rid itself of underdog status.
It is a double mission
in Gabon as Tanzania, placed on Group B alongside Niger and Angola, must win in
the group to qualify for the U-17 World Cup finals to be held in India this
October. Nobody is going to help us achieve our goal, hence we are the ones
obliged to join hands to support our boys technically, financially and morally
until we reach the desired end.
Though we face too many
challenges at the Serengeti Boys camp, history has shown that our patriotic
boys perform better regardless of the kind of obstacles they may be facing as
challenges. All the boys need to do is to be at ease, be free and focus on
their own training while the rest do all what can be done to ensure everything
goes smoothly.
It is everyone’s responsibility,
because individuals, private and government institutions can join hands to help
the team garner what every Tanzanian desires as the ultimate goal.
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