Kapombe is now recovering, says Azam FC team doctor
Azam FC’s roving defender, Shomari Kapombe (left) in action in one of the previous assignments at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam. PHOTO|FILE
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Kapombe has been in South Africa since Thursday for health check-up and despite his improvement, he has been ruled out of field for the rest of the season.
Dar es Salaam. Azam FC’s roving defender, Shomari Kapombe is slightly improving from Pulmonary Embolism as he is currently attending medication at Morningside Mediclinic in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Kapombe has been in South Africa since Thursday for health check-up and despite his improvement, he has been ruled out of field for the rest of the season.
The club’s doctor, Dr. Juma Mwimbe was quoted by the club website as saying that he had received information from South Africa on the player’s continued improvements. “ We thank God that he has made a slight improvement as I personally talked to him (Kapombe) yesterday”, said Mwimbe.
“He told me that he is doing much better and no longer feels much chest pains as it was earlier”, the club doctor was quoted as saying by the club website.
Dr Mwimbe said that Kapombe needs about two or three months to be physically fit, the reason why he will miss the rest of Premier League, FA Cup and CAF Confederation Cup assignments.
Kapombe’s services were key to the club’s continued achievements in all three crucial football tournaments.His absence will be a blow to the club despite to the fact that there are other best defenders for his immediate replacement.
The former France’s AS Cannes and Simba Sports Club defender has so far netted 11 goals, eight of them in the Mainland Vodacom Premier League, two goals in the CAF Confederation Cup and netted once in the CAF Confederation Cup when his side beat South Africa’s Bidvest Wits 3-0.
Apart from Kapombe, Azam’s English coach, Stewart Hall has said that he will misses the services of other key players, Ivorian Pascal Wawa and midfielder Aboubakar Salum (Sure Boy) in today’s Mainland Vodacom Premier League against Mtibwa Sugar in Morogoro.
Hall said that the duo of Wawa and Salum (Sure Boy) will be under team physician Adrian Dobre for them to recover quickly before facing Esperance in Tunis, Tunisia in a few days to come.
“We still have some good players to replace our missing players, forexample, David Mwantika will replaced Wawa”, said Hall.
