Handle with care

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Handle with care Sunday Mail

The Sunday Mail

 

SYDNEY LINYAMA has a proven history of going AWOL, he has done it at every topflight club he has played for.

It must be a part of his DNA.

However, there is a team he is yet to let down.

Linyama might have disappeared when Dynamos needed him the most.

He might have lied about a relative passing on during his time with Chicken Inn.

However, when it comes to MOB FC, the lad is always there when needed or otherwise.

MOB FC?

Well MOB FC is a social soccer team based in Mbare and for Linyama, this outfit always comes first.

The 24-year-old defender loves the team, sacrifices for it.

It has been suggested that ferrying MOB FC players to and from matches caused Linyama’s Mercedes Benz to wear down at a rate that is sure to shock the German car manufacturer.

How a car designed to carry a maximum of six people, including the driver, manages to accommodate 11 fully grown men is a mystery that only Linyama can unravel.

MOB FC’s fiercest rivals are Edward Sadomba’s Buccaneers and there is a time when Linyama turned his back on DeMbare just to pay in the “Mbare Derby”, his close associates claim.

“There was a time when Du (Sadomba) came back from Sudan and a match was organised for Sunday at the Number 5 grounds.

“On that day DeMbare were set to play in Bulawayo as well and Sydo (Linyama) found a way of missing the trip just to play against Bucaneers,” said one of Linyama’s close friends.

In the Premiership, Linyama is nicknamed Sydo.

In Mbare he goes by the moniker Super Syda and almost everyone who has interest in football knows about him, his talent as well as his wayward behaviour.

On several occasions, Mbare’s football godfathers – former players and administrators – have tried to knock some sense into Linyama.

They have told him that he cannot continue hanging around with Zimdancehall artistes when his God given talent is playing football and not chanting to instrumentals at Chill Sport studios like Soul Jah Love.

Their nuggets have found no place to settle in Linyama’s head.

But now a man who has been playing professional football for 15 years and a man that Super Syda idiolised as he grew up has been tasked with adding his voice to the cause.

That man is Thomas Sweswe.

“Sydo is my young brother and am always ready to offer him advice because he is from Mbare and in Mbare we tell each other the truth,” said the former Dynamos and Kaizer Chiefs man.

“Obviously some of the things I intend to say to him are private but the long and short of it is that the young man needs to change his lifestyle.

“He is a good defender, with good height and is comfortable on the ball. If he concentrates on his game he will go places.”

That Linyama is beyond good is never in doubt.

Kallisto Pasuwa at one time opined that the defender would make the grade in Europe if he trained consistently for half a year.

What Pasuwa couldn’t do though was make sure that Linyama pitched up for training every day.

At Chicken Inn, the late Adam Ndlovu had his own unorthodox way.

Ndlovu drove Linyama to and from training and also made sure that the defender’s winning bonuses came in trickles.

Lloyd Chitembwe will have to find his own way of dealing with Super Syda should Caps United choose to sign the journeyman defender.

Linyama certainly comes with a “Handle With Care” warning!

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