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Bulawayo Giants Highlanders better known as iBosso walked away away US$1 500 each per player Richer as bonuses for the Uhuru Cup victory.Bosso won the tightly contested game 1-0, with a 55th minute thunderbolt strike by their hitman Stanley Ngala.
For lifting the Uhuru Cup, Highlanders earned themselves $6 million, while Dynamos went home with $4,5 million.
Incentives brought the best out of the players who exhibited their A-game with 20 Highlanders players that made yesterday’s squad sharing US$30 000, and their coach Mandla Mpofu getting US$2 250 for beating Dynamos.
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The four assistant coaches shared US$6 000 while the team manager and team doctor each got US$1 500. The two medics shared US$2 250.
The man-of-the-match chosen by the winning technical team took home US$2 250.
Main Sponsors Tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwireyi’s Sakunda Holdings reviewed the prize money to be shared by Dynamos to US$18 300 from US$9 000, which it had set aside before the final. Each member of the 30-team DeMbare squad got US$610.
The club’s principal sponsor Sakunda Holdings poured in US$69 300 as incentives for the match that lived up to its billing.
The Independence Cup was a blockbuster, with tension and skill, and both sides showing tactical astuteness as the teams exhibited the best of Zimbabwean football before a capacity crowd.
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Not only did bosso walk away Richer than their old time foe Dembare but they boasted bragging rights after beating their old nemesis Dynamos.
The Uhuru Cup final was played yesterday in the city of kings as part of the 42nd independence year commemorations held in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, the city of kings for the first time ever.
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