Prophet Walter Magaya the owner of Yadah FC has accepted full responsibility for the team’s 7-2 mauling at the hands of Bantu Rovers on Saturday. The defeat came after Magaya had suspended coach Jairos Tapera and his assistants for reportedly failing to follow his instructions. While he accepted responsibility for the defeat, Magaya denied that the loss was due to the absence of his technical staff. Instead, he blamed the defeat on taxing prayers conducted before the match and spiritual issues. Magaya also denied that the loss was due to sabotage from the players
Said Magaya:
These are things some of them, and some of you, might not understand and it’s all spiritual and l take full responsibility for that because this was very powerful and it took a toll on my players. The power of prayer is real and given this is a ministry team, ahead of their trip to Bulawayo, there are prayers that we did in preparation for a service and it ended up affecting my players.
Some of them were telling me, at half-time, they could barely run, they could barely lift their legs and they were just dragging themselves in that match and couldn’t understand what was happening.
…I also told them l don’t buy all these things that are being said that they may have been influenced to sabotage the team because of the issue about the coaches which is currently being sorted out.
You won’t understand it when l say it was all spiritual and some of the players might not understand it but l do and that is why l am taking responsibility for what happened.
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