The multi-award-winning Lesedi FM radio personality and football administrator, Nyakallo Leine, who is popularly known as Ba2cada, has made a call to Siwelele FC and Bloemfontein Celtic bosses to unite for the sake of football in the province.
Ba2cada, who has just put his club, D’General FC, which he owns with the former Bafana Bafana star Kamohelo Mokotjo, on sale due to financial challenges, has urged the owner of Siwelele FC, Calvin Le John, to work with Eddie Modise, the owner of the Bloemfontein Celtic naming rights.
Le John is the son of the Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton Mckenzie.
Ba2cada this week told Sunday World that he was excited that the great football fever will be returning to Bloemfontein, where the seed of passion for the beautiful game was planted by the late Bloemfontein Celtic founder, Petrus Molemela.
He said that as a football fanatic himself, he was very grateful that both Le John and Modise had shown so much commitment to revive the Phunya Sele Sele brand, which is engraved in many people’s hearts in Free State.
“It is a great feeling to see these two gentlemen showing passion towards elevating the brand that was introduced to us by the late Ntate Molemela.
“This is a good start for greater things to come, and I make a passionate plea to both gentlemen to sit down and discuss how they can both work together for the sake of elevating football and nurturing talent in Bloemfontein and Free State at large,” said Ba2Cada.
“Their unity and working relationship can really create a massive football movement that this province will ever see. I really like both gentlemen to team up and create massive waves in the province,” said Ba2cada.
He also said that he is endorsing Siwelele FC and also stated that Modise, who bought Bloemfontein Celtic naming rights for R5-million from the former owner Max Tshabalala, has a role in taking football to the highest level in the province.
Ba2cada also praised Marumo Gallants’ bosses for their love for Bloemfontein, as the team had relocated to the City of Roses to uplift the spirits of football loving people in Free State.
“As the son of this province, I am proud to stand up and say that the owners of Bloemfontein Celtic and Siwelele have my support to take the beautiful game to a greater level.
“It will be great to see these gentlemen working together for the common purpose. Even if they need my assistance, I am also ready to jump in and throw in my support, as well as bring together the fans of football in the province.
“I understand that there are two names that we have right now, but that shouldn’t be a separation of making Bloemfontein great again. We need to unite and also make God and the ancestors of this province happy, and with that spirit, we will all ride the crest of success across Free State,” he said.
He said there should not be egos among Le John and Modise, stating that clashes of personalities would not take football forward.
“Let football be a winner as we all rise,” concluded Ba2cada.
