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Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
WHEN news  filtered through that Highlanders and national team midfielder Peter “Rio” Moyo was headed for Mpumalanga Black Aces in the Absa Premiership League in South Africa, everyone, especially Highlanders fans, was overjoyed that finally their club was going to realise something off the sale of a player to a foreign club.
It was within their rights to celebrate for it had been long since their club had made some dollars out of selling players. In fact the last time was when striker Obidiah

Tarumbwa moved to Belgium but still his deal was shrouded in controversy that saw a former chairman Ernest Sibanda being banned from all club activities.
So the imminent move by Rio was naturally sweet music to the millions of Amahlolanyama supporters and sympathisers. The boy had put a sterling show during the Chan championships in South Africa and rightly was spotted by scouts.

But as fate would have it, it later turned out that the boy was not a Highlanders player after all but what football slang would say umbolekwa. He was a Luveve Big Eleven player and even if he was to move, the club that brought him fame and catapulted him to stardom, would not get even a dime. Even concerted efforts to have him sign a contract where the club would even get 50 percent of the move was turned down by the Moyo camp.

Rio played the whole first half of the season without a contract with Highlanders and from his poor performances it was clear he did not want to risk injuries. He never applied himself fully.

While Moyo failed to impress and was a pale shadow of the outstanding midfielder of 2012, Milton Ncube and poster boy Kudakwashe Mahachi played their hearts out for Bosso.

What Moyo and perhaps his handlers forgot was that game time was key to his move across the Limpopo and that one is as good as his last game. Present form counts at the end of the day and Moyo was out of form and lost his contract at Mpumalanga Black Aces.

Now that the move has collapsed, the boy wants to come back to the very same club that he probably thought was now below his standards and denied an opportunity to make money.

On his day Moyo is a vastly talented player who could with the right mindset walk into the Highlanders system with ease. As they have previously been tricked by the likes of Njabulo Ncube, players with a seeming mercenary attitude, Highlanders will be cautious in accepting him back to the fold given that he could once again be selfish with his handlers and demand a contract that leaves him free to jump ship for free.

His case could be a lesson to him and other like minded football players in the country.
We are told Bosso are reluctant in welcoming the boy back to 50 Robert Mugabe Way because as the old adage says, once bitten twice shy.
The boy like many of the Zimbabwean soccer flops in South Africa who include Tafadzwa Rusike, Simba Sithole and Roderick Mutuma need guidance and everyone’s prayers.

Lord let me acknowledge You in all that I do in daily life, because Your Word says: “In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.”  (Proverbs 3:6) I believe and trust in that word Lord, and know I can rely on You! Perhaps it’s the prayer Moyo needs for now.