http://thesport.mozello.com/foot/2017-cosafa-under-20-championships/madid/ The Sport - Madidilane short-listed for annual sports awards http://thesport.mozello.com/foot/2017-cosafa-under-20-championships/madid/params/post/1738468/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:42:00 +0000 <p><span style="color: #a52a2a"><img style="font: 400 16px/24px Calibri; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: none; width: 529px; text-align: left; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; max-width: 634px; orphans: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;" src="http://site-587432.mozfiles.com/files/587432/medium/Bantu_head_coach_James_Madidilane.JPG?1511426155"></span></p><p><span style="color: #a52a2a"><b>Bantu coach James Madidilane</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Bantu coach James Madidilane, is short-listed for the Lesotho Annual Sports Awards (LASA) coach of the year accolade.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Madidilane is competing for the award against chess coach Moseli Phera and Nomanzondo Seleteng of School Sport. Madidilane was nominated for the award by the sports mother-body, Lesotho Sport and Recreation Commission (LSRC), while Phera and Seleteng were nominated by Chess Federation of Lesotho (CFL) and Lesotho Primary Schools Sports Association (LePSSA) respectively. </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">LSRC is running and responsible of the awards which are held in a bid to recognize, embrace and reward Lesotho’s athletes, coaches, administrators and clubs and who are excelling in their respective sport disciplines, as well as sport journalists.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Madidilane’s team Bantu is also short-listed for Sport Team of the year. It is competing for the award against the senior national team Likuena and Lerotholi Polytechnic Basketball Club.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Bantu are the defending Econet Premier League (EPL) champions, having won the league title back-to-back two seasons before and are once again in the race to win it for the third time consecutively. </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">The Mafeteng based-side have just broke Lesotho decades of poor record in the CAF Champions League by proceeding beyond preliminary stage of the competition, when they knocked out Township Rollers of Botswana.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">However, Bantu were eliminated from the continental club premier tournament by As Vita of DR Congo in the first round, thus saw them dropping in the CAF Confederation Cup where they once again crashed out of the competition as they lost to Enugu Rangers of Nigeria</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Madidilane, who is in his third season as Bantu coach, won the Econet Premier League Coach of the Month accolade more than once last season.</span></p><p>Meanwhile, yesteryear footballers Thulo ‘The Magic Touch Leboela, Lekoane ‘Computer’ Lekoane and the late Refiloe ‘Popo’ Matsoara have been short-listed for Sport Legacy Award. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Former athletics ace Vincent Rakabaele, ex-taekwondo player Mokete Mokhosi and off-road former rider Patrick Andrews are short-listed for Sport Legacy Award.&nbsp; <span style="color: #000000">The awards will be held in Maseru on April 6 this year.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;</span></p><p> </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p> <span style="color: #000000">.</span></p>