Players from Benin‚ Gabon and Zimbabwe queueing up to impress Igesund

19 January 2017 - 18:01 By Nick Said
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Highlands Park coach Gordon Igesund has made strengthening his side’s defence a top priority in the January transfer window and is looking to players outside of the Absa Premiership to do so.

The club is currently in camp in Cape Town where they will play a number of friendlies in which trialists will be given the opportunity to impress the technical team.

“I have got players here from Benin‚ Gabon and Zimbabwe‚ and we are looking at them closely‚” Igesund told Times Media Digital.

“I don’t want to say too much about them until we have had a good look but we need to strengthen the side defensively.

“We conceded 29 goals in the first half of the season and that is just too many.

"We are also looking at our Diski team to see what youngsters we can bring up into the set-up to make a difference.”

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The player from Zimbabwe is Platinum FC defensive midfielder Gerald Takwara.

Igesund reveals that star striker Collins Mbesuma is still “three to five weeks” away from being ready to play following knee surgery.

The veteran Zambian international‚ who was the league’s top scorer last season‚ is off crutches but not yet jogging.

“It was a very complicated operation and it is not something that can be rushed‚” Igesund says.

“He is in the very early stages of rehabilitation‚ even though he is with us here in Cape Town.

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“He is working very hard to get back to fitness‚ I can tell you that‚ but the physio thinks it will be three to five weeks‚ probably closer to the latter‚ before he can play.”

The Johannesburg club are currently second bottom of the Absa Premiership table following their promotion via the playoffs at the end of the last campaign.

They are a point ahead of bottom side Baroka FC‚ but in a congested bottom half of the table‚ only three points off Chippa United in 11th place.

- TMG Digital

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