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Ricardo Muendane: An Incomplete Symphony?
- Updated: April 28, 2016
Few minutes following a historic qualification for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup, the attitude of Ricardo Muendane was everything but joyful.
Ricardo had just led his teammates to achieve a milestone of qualifying for the 2016 FIFA World Cup after beating Zambia 2-1 on penalties at the Ellis Park Indoor Arena in Johannesburg. It was the first ever time the Southern African country had qualified for the final tournament of a global Futsal championship.
From a personal perspective, the South African campaign was crowned with a Golden Boot award, after scoring 10 goals at the tournament held from 15-24 April 2016 in South Africa.
But his presence in Colombia, host country of the FIFA Futsal World Cup, is not certain and is even more hypothetical given that he appears to be injured. Paradoxical, isn’t it? For the World Cup could be considered as the summit of a sporting career.
“I have fulfilled my task of qualifying my country to the World Cup. But my mind is not on the World Cup, and I do not particularly wish to participate”, Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane confided in a flat tone, and in a rather formal English without the least emotional expression.
Of course! Nevertheless … His face lights up when he talks about the match ball given to him after the …
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