DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 15 -- MTIBWA Sugar on Monday night, this week, downed Simba Sports Club by one goal to nil to win the Mapinduzi Cup in an exciting match played at the...in Zanzibar.
The victory was quite a milestone for the Morogoro based club which has always played a second fiddle to Simba and Young Africans.
But on Monday night they decided they had had just enough with that role and this time, plucked up courage and went for the jugular, taking, in the process, the front seat. Mtibwa Sugar's victory was not surprising at least for some of us who have been following, very closely, the club's progress in the last decade or so.
For unlike Tanzanian soccer clubs, Mtibwa Sugar hardly spends money in buying local players. But instead, ...