Mozambique's Maria de Lurdes Mutola Set To Lead Her country to Victory at the COSAFA Cup and the AAG

Maria Mutola on the ball

Many may know her as the greatest female 800m runner of all time but Maria de Lurdes Mutola also packs a punch as a soccer player. In fact before she hauled in the medals from the Olympic games and other major world track and field meets,Maria Mutola was a soccer star and it only made sense that after her days in track field was over,she will return to her first love-soccer.

As Mozambique prepares to host the All Africa Games later in September,Maria Mutola(38) who plays for the Luso Africa women's soccer team in the Sasol league(South Africa) has earned a call-up among other players chosen from clubs in the provinces of Mozambique. A star player in her own right,Maria Mutola hopes to help her country win the 2011 COSAFA Women's Cup in Reunion and then the AAG in September before her home crowd.


Players called up by the Mozambican Football Federation are as follows with club names first:
ADPM: Ana F. Machanguana, Amélia F. Banze, Celeste Cardoso, Clotilde I. J. BernardoLucitina G.Piquenino, Márcia T. Ngonvene, Neusa M. A. Zandamela and Inês.
 Zixaxa: Ana Klaida, Albertina C. Pondja, Amália S.f. Vinlankulo, Aurora A. Ngale, Honória, Júlia Paulo Fumo, Remat, Rosalina J. Timbe and Sara Jacob. MAXAQUENE: Lúcia Moçambique and Isabel Chambal. 
PARADISE: Augusta M. Massingue, Aicha A.C.Chamussi, Célia dos A.V. Uate and Grita F. Maferano. 
LUSO AFRICA: Maria de Ludes Mutola. 
Padaria Sahsim Mocuba. Carmem Leonor Eduardo Ponpisky and Fazila António Ropoco.           
 3 de Fevereiro Quelimane. Gizela Ilda José Nhanvene, Leonora Claudia Figueredo Monivo and Maria Ginete Arlindo Neves. 
Desportivo Ngonani. Sonia.
 Fanta da Beira. Amélia Fenias Jorge and Celina Joaquim Machado.
 Ferroviário de Pemba. Fátima and Onesta Mar das Ondas Livres.