Leopards players eager to perform
Black Leopards assistant coach Abel
Makhubela says the players are pleased to be back in training and looking
forward to the new season.
Lidoda Duvha will start playing long before
the rest of the PSL as they have a two-legged tie with Sudanese side
Al-Merreikh in the CAF Confederation Cup, the first of which is on June 30.
"The team is back in training since
the beginning of the week which was this past Monday. We are glad to be back
and are looking forward to getting this show on the road,” Makhubela told the
club’s website.
“The players will be training hard to get
back into shape and lose the fatigue they gained from the holidays and get that
lung capacity back. The whole plan is to rejuvenate that fitness level that
existed before we closed the season.
"At the moment we want to focus more
on getting ready for the season rather than preparing intensively for the CAF
Cup. So we are in what we call the pre-season, hard work has to be done before
we think about any games.
"Our first fixture is Bloemfontein
Celtics in the opening period of the 2012/13 season. I think overall it may
seem that we will start with a better chance of winning unlike last season when
we opened against Orlando Pirates, but I do not view it that manner. Every team
in the PSL is a big team and we must fight like any other game. What makes me
smile is that at least this year the players have experienced the level of play
in the PSL so it will be easy to adjust.
"The CAF competition will also serve
as motivation amongst the players to put more effort in raising their game and
soldiering forward to bigger stages of the tournament and of the PSL. So all in
all the train has started moving and once again we will try by all means to
make our fans happy with keeping our winning ways." concluded Makhubela.
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