The Isaac Riyano story: Bosso’s flower that blossomed elsewhere
By Lovemore Dube
Isaac Riyano remains one of the best junior players ever to come out of the Highlanders Football Club nursery in the 1980s.
Sadly he could not graduate into the first team to fill in vacancies left by club and Zimbabwe legends Rahman Gumbo, Willard Khumalo and Tito Paketh who had left the People’s Team for Europe.
Weak O-level results left him with an invitation to take up employment in Zvishavane and join Shu-Shine FC at the invitation of his maternal uncle, yet another football legend — Tavaka Gumbo.