HIGHLANDERS Football Club will set the ball rolling for the 2013 Castle Lager Premiership campaign on Monday with head coach Kelvin Kaindu expected in Bulawayo tomorrow.
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Chairman Peter Dube yesterday told NewsDay Sport that everyone concerned at the club is aware that business at Bosso starts on Monday but the club has not yet set dates for the executive committee to iron out outstanding issues.
Dube said he was not aware when the Zambian national will be coming in but the gaffer, who took Highlanders to position two after going 23-matches unbeaten last year, was aware that business starts on Monday.
“I don’t even know when the coach will be coming, but we had set the 7th of January for the team to start rolling and that was in consultation with the coach (Kaindu),” Dube said.
Dube intimated that the club was not antagonistic to any member of the Bosso family and stated that the executive committee has not set out the first meeting for the year and had not discussed anything in relation to contracts of the members of the technical team, whose contracts expired at the end of last year.
“The year (2012) has ended. The club is going to sit and start looking at those issues. We are going to review those contracts based on performance and the best interests of the club. We have not even set our first meeting,” Dube said.
There have been fears that assistant coaches Bekithemba “Super” Ndlovu and goalkeepers’ coach Tembo Chuma and welfare manager Amin Soma-Phiri would be shown the exit door following the expiry of their contracts but Dube said those will be reviewed.
