The heart of a lion

Football normally dictates that those who score goals tend to be easily identifiable and usually end up bestowed with the honour of being the best players.

For most of this season, half of the goals scored by Chippa United have been supplied by Bienvenu Eva Nga, the Cameroon forward who joined in the last campaign from BidVest Wits.

Eva Nga has held the torch high up since then, so much so that by the time the league went into the midseason break, he had already improved on his scoring numbers from the previous campaign.

“This is definitely my best season to date here in South Africa, but I have had better years when I played in Mozambique and Portugal,” he says.

He scored 26 goals for Costa do Sol in his last year playing in the Mocambola league in 2018, which proved the catalyst to moving across the eastern border and into South Africa.

He had four goals in his debut season at Wits and in his first campaign at Chippa, went up to six, a number that he had surpassed