Welcome back. The walk down memory lane continues, and we know you are enjoying it as much as Soccer Laduma readers are enjoying reading about it. So, we were rudely interrupted by the gods of space as you were about to bless us with a Chancey Gondwe story last week. Let’s hear about it!
So, we used to stay at this big house, together with the likes of Mpumi Gamedze, Lucky Qaba, Josta Dladla, Ashley Makhanya and I. He was one of our senior players. Pre-season was set to begin the following day and he knew about everything as they had told us to bring takkies along as we wouldn’t need soccer boots for two weeks. Chancey Gondwe being Chancey Gondwe, he hadn’t slept a wink, and met us while we were getting into the bus. He hopped in and went to training with us. Guess what he had in his bag? A pair of six-stud boots, ha, ha, ha. We were wearing our club uniform ready to go to the mountain just underneath Marks Park, where we were going to do our running. He was asking, “Ah, what’s happening? Why is everybody wearing takkies? Are you road runners?” We told him, “No, it’s pre-season, we are going to do some running.” He said, “No, I can’t run with these things.” I think he wore those six-stud boots deliberately, knowing there was no way he was going to run wearing them. They told him to stay at Marks Park and do some laps until we were finished running that side. So, somebody saw him sitting down drinking water. He just waited for us and as soon as he saw the guy in front coming back, he got up and started running and splashing water on his face. When the rest of us got back, he threw himself on the ground, and when the coach asked him what was wrong, he said, “I’ve never run like that in my entire life!” Ha, ha, ha. But that old man had seen him, as soon as all of us were out of sight, Chancey just went to sleep. In fact, the man snitched on him. That was funny because for almost a year, he always reminded us about that day, saying he had never run like that in his entire life. He didn’t know that the whole team knew he had done nothing and was just relaxing there.
Ha, ha, ha, he was a crazy guy.
