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Caps United eye foreign players

Sport
IT looks like foreign players are the in-thing with the country’s three biggest football clubs — Dynamos, Highlanders and Caps United.

IT looks like foreign players are the in-thing with the country’s three biggest football clubs — Dynamos, Highlanders and Caps United.

BY SPORTS CORRESPONDENT Dynamos are eyeing players from Portugal and Cameroon, two Canadians have arrived at Highlanders and now Caps want to join the queue.

Dynamos and Caps United’s plans are still on paper, while for Highlanders, the two players have already joined their pre-season camp at Entokozweni Safaris in Inyathi.

An informed source at the Green Machine told NewsDay Sport yesterday the foreign assistant coach recommended by head coach Taurai Mangwiro was set to bring some players with him to join Makepekepe.

“It’s correct. A foreign coach has been recommended to the board. He should be coming next month. There have been delays because he is supposed to bring in some players with him,” the source said.

Last season, Caps had Gerald Phiri from Malawi, while in previous years Ian Bakala, Hadji Tambala and Joseph Kamwendo featured for the former Zimbabwe champions.

It’s the second time Caps United will be engaging a foreign coach after bringing in Northern Irishman Sean Connor to take charge of the Harare giants in a failed 2012 campaign.

Connor, who arrived at Caps United with a poor record having lost 23 consecutive games in his last job in his home country, was fired in August of the same year following a spate of poor results, with the 3-2 defeat to Hwange proving to be the final straw.

The Harare giants are set to unveil the assistant foreign coach to strengthen their technical team decimated by the departure of Saul Chaminuka to newly-promoted ZPC Kariba.

Already, the Harare giants have interviewed former Eagles coach Mike “Dread” Madzivanyika for one of the positions of assistant coach.

But Mangwiro, aware of the need to strengthen his technical bench, has recommended the appointment of a foreign coach as one of his assistants.

Former goalkeepers’ coach Brenna Msiska is one of the coaches who have been affected by the reshuffling at the Harare giants.

The club management is still to decide on his future, but he looks set to be re-assigned to the juniors.

Veteran goalkeeper’s coach Richard Tswatswa is set to bounce back at the Green Machine as a direct replacement for Msiska after he was also recommended by Mangwiro to be one of his assistants.

Tswatswa, who is also the goalkeepers’ coach of the Warriors, is, however, yet to be interviewed for the job as he is still in South Africa with the national team for the African Nations Championships.