Former Warriors fitness trainer quits

AMBITIOUS Zifa Southern Region Division One club Talen Vision has parted ways with their fitness trainer Majaha Ndlovu.

According to sources, the two parties reportedly divorced after the failure by the club to meet the trainer’s financial obligations for the past few months.

“That’s news to me. It’s not yet official. We are having our executive meeting on Tuesday (today) evening. Call me after that I will be able to furnish you with finer details because we had Ndlovu at our previous match against Bosso 90,” said Talen Vision chairman Elton Sinyosi.

Spirited efforts to get a comment from Ndlovu drew a blank as his mobile phone was not reachable.

Ndlovu previously trained Bosso, Caps United, Nyasa Big Bullets and the Warriors.

Early this year, Talen Vision, accepted an invitation by the country’s football mother body to be part of the National Division One League.

Zifa wants to create a National Division One League amid revelations that the division will be made up of teams from the four regions – Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern to make the second tier which will feed into the Castle Lager Premiership Soccer League while the existing regional leagues would then continue as third-tier leagues, feeding the national league in a promotion-relegation system.

This league has reportedly been hanging since 2013.

The inaugural national Division One League, which was set to start this season would have been made up of 16 teams.

Then under the guidance of Lizwe Sweswe, Talen Vision finished the 2022 Southern Region Division One league on position three after playing second fiddle to eventual winners Hwange and ZPC Hwange who concluded as the league’s first runners up.

Ahead of the start of the 2023 local football season and the departure of Sweswe and his assistant Sithethelelwe “Kwinji 15” Sibanda, to join rebuilding Bulawayo Chiefs and FC Platinum Royals as head coaches respectively, Talen Vision appointed a new technical team headed by Slovakian Miroslav Nemec.

Nemec made a return to the Filabusi based club to assume the position of head coach early this year and he is being assisted by Golding Dube and Saul Ndlovu.

Nemec, Dube and Ndlovu beat ex-Premier Soccer League coach Philani Mabhena, former Manica Diamonds coach Johannes Nhumwa and ex Bantu Rovers and Black Mambas player Fortune “Fokoza” Ncube to assume their new roles at the Trukumb Mining sponsored side.

The club also named Andrew Sidambe and Wonder Mpofu as their goalkeepers’ mentor and team manager respectively.

Mpofu previously worked in the same capacity with the now defunct Bantu Rovers.

Highlanders Football Club Legend Gift Lunga (jnr) was set to assume the role of head coach at Talen Vision Academy where he was going to be assisted by Owen Butete

Lunga turned his back against the club before he officially started duty. -@FungaiMuderere