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Canadians arrives for Bosso attachment
20 Jan 2014 at 08:08hrs | Views
CANADIAN First Mobile Sports Academy (FMSA) players, striker Phillippe Barriault and goalkeeper Jean-Felix Lemieux, arrived in Bulawayo yesterday morning for an attachment at Highlanders Football Club.
FMSA is run by Zimbabwean coach Isaac Mbedzi who facilitated the two players' stint with Bosso.
If the players impress the Highlanders technical team they will be registered for the first half of the 2014 Premier Soccer League season as they are due to leave in July for Belgium for another attachment with FC Brugge.
Bosso are expected to embark on an out-of-town pre-season training camp starting today.
Barriault (20) and Lemieux (19) arrived by road yesterday morning from Johannesburg, South Africa, where they landed on Saturday.
The players will be at Bosso for six months and will be leaving on July 6 or 7 for another attachment with FC Brugge in Belgium.
If Barriault makes the grade, he could come in handy for Bosso who have lost journeymen Masimba Mambare to Dynamos and Njabulo 'Tshiki' Ncube to FC Platinum, but would have to fight it out for a jersey upfront with Gabriel Nyoni, Cleopas Dube, Knox Mutizwa and Valentine Ndaba, who are some of the forwards at the Bulawayo giants.
Lemieux will compete with Diya and Njabulo 'Popo' Nyoni who makes a return to Bosso after a three-year sojourn at city neighbours Chicken Inn.
The Canadians' stay in Zimbabwe will be catered for by FMSA and their parents and they will be staying in Hillside.
Bosso would register them like American Melrose Place soap opera actor Andrew Shue who played for championship-winning Highlanders after he graduated in the US in 1989. Another American who has donned the black and white Bosso kit is Kelly Jacobson.
FMSA is run by Zimbabwean coach Isaac Mbedzi who facilitated the two players' stint with Bosso.
If the players impress the Highlanders technical team they will be registered for the first half of the 2014 Premier Soccer League season as they are due to leave in July for Belgium for another attachment with FC Brugge.
Bosso are expected to embark on an out-of-town pre-season training camp starting today.
Barriault (20) and Lemieux (19) arrived by road yesterday morning from Johannesburg, South Africa, where they landed on Saturday.
If Barriault makes the grade, he could come in handy for Bosso who have lost journeymen Masimba Mambare to Dynamos and Njabulo 'Tshiki' Ncube to FC Platinum, but would have to fight it out for a jersey upfront with Gabriel Nyoni, Cleopas Dube, Knox Mutizwa and Valentine Ndaba, who are some of the forwards at the Bulawayo giants.
Lemieux will compete with Diya and Njabulo 'Popo' Nyoni who makes a return to Bosso after a three-year sojourn at city neighbours Chicken Inn.
The Canadians' stay in Zimbabwe will be catered for by FMSA and their parents and they will be staying in Hillside.
Bosso would register them like American Melrose Place soap opera actor Andrew Shue who played for championship-winning Highlanders after he graduated in the US in 1989. Another American who has donned the black and white Bosso kit is Kelly Jacobson.
Source - southerneye
