The Sport Show

We talk to Teele Ntsonyana, Kenny Mohoanyane and others to hear their views about the re-election of Adv Salemane Phafane (KC) to the local football top post and his challenger, Lijane Nthunya, who is also the incumbent President of the Maseru District Football Association (DiFA Maseru).

In this podcast we are talking to Bantu's Communications and Marketing Manager, Bokang Phasumane, to hear about Lindokuhle Phungulwa's injury. According to Phasumane, Phungulwa is in Bloemfontein, South Africa where he is being treated and would be there until he is fine.

We are talking to the Lesotho Taekwondo Association (LTA)'s Public Relations Officer, Sek'hok'he Molikoe who is updating us about his organisation suspension by both the Lesotho Sport and Recreation Commission (LSRC) and the Lesotho National Olympic Committee (LNOC). Also our football analyst, Ts'epo Mathetha is with us to unpack latest sports news around.

Today our main focus is on the Tokyo Olympic Games' women marathon which took place yesterday, August 6 at night while in Japan it was in the morning of August 7, 2021. We mainly analyse the performance of Lesotho's lone marathoner in the women category, 'Neheng Khatala-Seutloali, who came on position 20 out of 88 competitors. We have local sports writer, Teboho Jafeta, who is the one doing the analysis. This podcast is from the live broadcast of today, August 7, from Scorpion RADIO live on http//mixlr.com/scorpion-radio-live.

We talk to Coach Morena Ramoreboli to hear how he managed to guide Bafana Bafana to the 2021 COSAFA Cup glory. We also talk to the Lesotho veteran marathoner, Mabuthile Lebopo, about chances of doing well by the Lesotho marathon duo to the Tokyo Olympic Games, 'Neheng Khatala-Seutloali and her husband Khoarahlane Seutloali. We also have a conversation with athletics guru, Mokete 'Chaplin' Mpomane, who is not happy that the South African athletics coach, Andrew Booysen, has been selected to led the two athletes, Seutloali and Khatala, to the Tokyo Olympic Games as their coach, with the Lesotho Amateur Athletics Association (LAAA) Secretary General ,Makara Thibinyane, explaining why his organisation decided to pick Booysen over local coaches.

Today we talk to former Likuena goalkeeper Daniel Jousse, former Likuena striker Paballo Mpakanyane and coach Kenny Mohoanyane for an in-depth analysis of the Lesotho senior national team's poor performance at the just-ended COSAFA Cup in South Africa.

Likuena only managed one victory over Zambia's Chipolopolo, coming from 1-nil down to beat them 2-1. That was after Likuena went down 3-1 to Eswatini in the opening match of the tournament.

But it never rained but it poured for Likuena who after the victory over Chipolopolo suffered back-to-back 4-0 losses at the hands of Botswana's Zebras and South Africa's Bafana Bafana.

Hear what our football analyst Tsepo Mathetha says about the Lesotho senior national team's performance at the on-going COSAFA Cup in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Lesotho lost 3-1 to Eswatini in the opening match of the tournament before shocking everybody when they came from 1-nil down to beat Zambia 2-1. But Likuena, as the Lesotho team is called lost 4-0 to Botswana in the following match

On our show today we have Coach Kenney Mohoanyane who is also a former premier League player as well as Dyke Tsiu who is a former goalkeeper for the Lesotho senior national team (Likuena), Linare. Matlama and Botswana's Township Rollers. We are picking the brains of the two, the discussion being on the chances of Likuena at the upcoming COSAFA Cup to start next week Tuesday in South Africa. Likuena are starting with a game against Eswatini as the opening match of the tournament before taking on Botswana's Zebras three days later and South Africa's Bafana Bafana on July 13 as their last match of the Group A.

On our show today we pick the brain of coaches Kenny Mohoanyane and Retselisitsoe Lephaila to analyse for the big match that was between Lioli and Matlama at Setsoto Stadium last Thursday. We also talk to both teams' coaches, Atang 'Bob' Mafoso and Moshulu 'Shoes' Mokhothu of Lioli. Again hear what Lesotho senior national team (Likuena) coach Thabo Senong says about his team's trip to Mozambique for a three-nation tournament against Mozambique and Eswatini where Likuena lost 5-0 and 1-0 respectively.