The ManicaPost
ESTEEMED followers of the game of football, thank you for finding time for interaction. Wisdom Mutasa, the son of Dynamos coach Lloyd “Samaita” Mutasa, has come to another crossroads in his career; whose potential once promised loads but has been intermittently botched.
Recently released by Singida United, the Tanzanian team he last turned out for, the former Young Warriors captain is back on the road again, seeking new paymasters. Although club-hunting, he is reportedly not interested in reuniting with his father Samaita and rekindle the romance with the Glamour Boys.
This is the interesting part.
Acutely aware that he needs to give a kiss of life to his seemingly stalling career, this is the first of curative steps Mutasa Jnr need to take. This should be a restorative move in the right direction for his somewhat defective vocation.
That the boy has played for an astonishing half a dozen teams in the short years since turning professional in the trade after matriculating from Aces Youth Academy must get him thinking serious and hard about his future. Having wandered through the scattered parks of Singida, Dynamos, ZPC Kariba, FK Senica (Slovakia) FC Platinum and Motor Action, Samaita’s son must wonder no more but get the wisdom to get his career back on track.
Because a rolling stone
gathers no moss.
By his own admission, the midfielder concedes as much. “The one thing on my mind is to get back to my best and revive my career,” he was quoted as telling local media early last week.
Get wise, boy; that is the kind of wisdom you need!
His close pal Walter Musona, with whom he shared a fruitless and brief stint in Europe, appears to have dusted himself up, played himself to acknowledgement as of the finest footballers of 2016 on the local scene as he made the Soccer Star of the Year finalists list is back in the grove now and resuscitating his game again at Polokwane City yonder in Mzansi.
Wisdom must also find his way out of the woods again.
By now Mutasa Jnr, a Yaya Toure-esque midfielder, should have been long out of his football diapers and taking the toddler’s steps to establishing a commanding career.
With the mentorship of Sunday “Mhofu” Chidzambwa at ZPC Kariba and Norman Mapeza at FC Platinum, the 23-year-old was in the right hands of astute trainers under whose auspices he would have blossomed.
And now he should earn his stripes elsewhere, flourish in another place. It is time he took those strides and fulfill his potential.
That moment is now, to get out of the towering shadow of his father and make his own name.
For a jumpstart, he can turn to CAPS United or Highlanders. Yes, MaKepeKepe or Bosso even as the blue blood streaming in him might get diluted.
Fighting in his father’s corner at Dynamos, as he once declared upon joining the Harare giants, should no longer be a cause now because it will put unnecessary pressure on both of them. He cannot continue being “daddy’s boy” — especially when his sibling Panashe is just coming up at DeMbare — and, therefore, needs to grow up and move on.
Some wisdom knocked into his head may just blow the kiss of life to his promising career which he has over the years been faltering.
Wisdom Mutasa simply has to be his own man.
It’s Game On, Play On!
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