Football fans love to be associated with winning trophies; it earns them bragging rights. For the fans is never about the prize money but the respect that comes with being the champions. Before the 5 th of November 2022, AmaZulu last saw a major cup final in 2010 against Bidvest Wits in the Nedbank Cup and last tasted cup victory three decades ago when they won the Coca-Cola Cup, now known as the Telkom Knockout. Now, you'd wonder what is it that keeps the fans in the club despite its unfortunateness when it comes winning trophies. Indlovukazi Ya MaZulu Miss Luyunda Mbuyazi shares with #AuthenticFootballChats how the love runs deeper than just AmaZulu winning trophies. She further unpacks what the MTN8 final meant to the fans... by Kgothatso Malepe Every soccer fan has drawn an inspiration from someone, somewhere or something that led to them being a supporter of a particular club. For Usuthu Queen, it was her late dad and the goodies he would buy for her each time AmaZul
Voice of the 12th Player....... "What many non-sport lovers fail to realise is that football is not just a sport. Especially in South Africa. In a country where so many are unemployed and strangled by poverty, those 90 minutes when South Africans get to watch their idols battle it out on the field are some of the happiest times of their lives." ~ Nikolaos Kirkinis