Lamontville Golden Arrows F.C.

Lamontville Golden Arrows F.C. are a South African football club based in Durban that plays in the Premier Soccer League.

History

Originally founded in 1943 in the dusty streets of Lamontville, a township in Durban, the club played in the defunct National Professional Soccer League in the 1970s until they were relegated in 1976. They played in the Second Division thereafter until 1980 when they were embroiled in a soccer scandal and thrown out of the National Professional Soccer League.

The team was formed again in 1996 when the Madlala family bought the Second Division franchise of Ntokozo FC and changed its name to Lamontville Golden Arrows.

In 2000 they won promotion to the PSL by winning the National First Division Coastal Stream.

Arrows claimed their first piece of major silverware when they won the MTN 8 in 2009. They routed Ajax Cape Town 6–0 in the final played at Orlando Stadium.

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Lamontville

Lamontville is a town in EThekwini in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Township south of Durban, on the Umlaas River and next to Mobeni. It was laid out in 1930 and named after Archibald Lamont, then Mayor of Durban.

References

Maritzburg United F.C.

Maritzburg United is a South African football club based in the city of Pietermaritzburg that currently plays in the Premier Soccer League.

Honours

Club records

Most starts: Shu-Aib Walters & Peter Petersen 107

Most goals: Fadlu Davids 20

Most starts in a season: Shu-Aib Walters & Mario Booysen 35 (2012/13)

Most goals in a season: Cuthbert Malajila 13 (2012/13)

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Premier Soccer League record

Club officials/Technical team

Chairman & MD: Farook Kadodia

Team manager: Quintin Jettoo

Coach: Vacant

Assistant coach: Fadlu Davids

Goalkeeper coach: Arthur Bartman

Head of youth development: Dan Haswell

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First team squad

As of 20 January 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Arrow

An arrow is a shafted projectile that is shot with a bow. It predates recorded history and is common to most cultures. An arrow usually consists of a shaft with an arrowhead attached to the front end, with fletchings and a nock at the other.

History

The oldest evidence of stone-tipped projectiles, which may or may not have been propelled by a bow (c.f. atlatl), dating to c. 64,000 years ago, were found in Sibudu Cave, South Africa. The oldest evidence of the use of bows to shoot arrows dates to about 10,000 years ago; it is based on pinewood arrows found in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg. They had shallow grooves on the base, indicating that they were shot from a bow. The oldest bow so far recovered is about 8,000 years old, found in the Holmegård swamp in Denmark. Archery seems to have arrived in the Americas with the Arctic small tool tradition, about 4,500 years ago.

Size

Arrow sizes vary greatly across cultures, ranging from eighteen inches to five feet (45 cm to 150 cm). However, most modern arrows are 75 centimetres (30 in) to 96 centimetres (38 in); most war arrows from an English ship sunk in 1545 were 76 centimetres (30 in). Very short arrows have been used, shot through a guide attached either to the bow (an "overdraw") or to the archer's wrist (the Turkish "siper"). These may fly farther than heavier arrows, and an enemy without suitable equipment may find himself unable to return them.

Golden

Golden means made of, or relating to gold.

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