PREMIER Soccer League (PSL) newcomers ZPC Kariba have overhauled their team ahead of the start of the 2014 Premiership season with new coach Saul Chaminuka only retaining 10 players from the team that won promotion last season.
BY MUKUDZEI CHINGWERE SPORTS CORRESPONDENT
Already, championship winning coach Jostein Mathuthu has fallen by the wayside with former Hardbody head coach Godfrey Tamirepi, former Highlanders goalkeepers coach Tembo Chuma and Oliver Mutara coming in. Former Gunners head coach Partson Ndabambi is the welfare manger.
Chaminuka confirmed the overhaul.
“The club has recruited the technical department I had proposed to them. From the players that won promotion last season, we will retain about 10 of the 30 we will register. We are also looking at adding eight players from the Kariba community; some of these players were training with the team last season. Then we will import about 12 players from outside,” he said.
“We also want to develop football in this community. We are not just coming to take their money and go. That’s why we are looking at recruiting eight young, local players. We will be finalising contracts with most
of the players, but I have already identified those we want to work with. So their names will be made public very soon when we have finalised with them. “Our primary objective this season will be to survive relegation and I think we can achieve it with the kind of backroom staff I have here.”
Gwenya Rechamhembe is believed to be finalising acquisitions of Premiership players like Limited Chikafa, Caleb Masocha, Philip Makanje, Obey Mwerahari, Paul Marazanye, Pardon Chinungwa, Norman Togara and Tawanda Nyamandwe.
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