As if to stir up the hornet’s nest, Jomo Sono was at it again in recent times, calling for Themba Zwane to be handed the number 10 jersey at Mamelodi Sundowns. But who can argue against the Black Prince of South African football on that suggestion, considering the massive contribution the Tembisa-born attacker has made since coming back from a loan stint at Mpumalanga Black Aces and establishing himself as a regular at the club? After all, if Downs were a choir, “Mshishi” would definitely be the conductor. His intelligence with and without the ball, skill, vision, guile, goalscoring touch, and much more, would turn some of the best jersey number 10s in the world, past and present, green with envy. However, there’s also a case to be made for the current holder of that jersey number at the Tshwane giants, Gaston Sirino, himself a huge fan-favourite who on his day can tear any defence apart. In the last instalment of this series of articles, Soccer Laduma’s Lunga Adam gathers responses from the Yellow Nation on the contentious matter…
‘The General’ chimes in on the discussion
Certainly one of the greatest players to have worn the Mamelodi Sundowns shirt, Roger Feutmba was a midfielder par excellence. Such that for opposition players, it required a massive effort to dispossess him of the ball, even as he appeared lax in possession. That he was in the Cameroon squad for the 1990 FIFA World Cup says it all. Seeing the 54-year-old also wore jersey number 10 at one stage at the Brazilians, we asked him for his thoughts on the issue.
