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CAPS United director Twine Phiri says they will give coach Taurai Mangwiro the freedom to choose his assistant for the 2014 football season. When Mangwiro first arrived at CAPS United in 2012, he roped in Mkhupali Masuku as his first assistant while last year he closely worked with Saul Chaminuka. CAPS United performed relatively well under Mangwiro, Chaminuka and Brenna Msiska last season and, at one point, they were in the championship equation while they also fought gallantly in the Mbada Diamonds Cup.
Some neutrals feel that the Green Machine could have been serious contenders for the league championship last season had they not been held back by a hostile operating environment, where at times the players boycotted training on occasions, because of the club’s poor financial base.
The nomadic Chaminuka has left the club and will be in charge of newly-promoted ZPC Kariba with Patson Ndabambi as his team manager.
Former CAPS United coach, Jostein Mathuthu-Mambo, who led ZPC into the Premiership, was sidelined after the club settled for Chaminuka.
Now CAPS United have to hunt for another assistant and Phiri said it was up to Mangwiro to choose his support staff.
“At the moment, the team is not training but I hope we will resume around mid-January. On the assistant coaches, we will leave that to the coach to make his own choice and then recommend to us,” said Phiri yesterday.
Currently CAPS United does not have a running executive committee after the secretariat, led by chief executive Joe Makuvire, was dissolved at the end of last season.
Phiri has appointed a six-man board made up of Lewis Uriri, Alex Munyaka, Nhamo Tutisani, medical doctor Mordecai Sachikonye, Khumbulani Mhlope and Munyaradzi Mazhande which he hopes will come up with a vision for the club.
But while Phiri is hoping that Mangwiro will be heading the technical team at CAPS United, there are also fears the unsettled coach could be leaving.
Sources claim that Mangwiro is on the radar of Triangle FC who are yet to offer Gishon Ntini a new deal.
The sources said Mangwiro is currently in Masvingo and could be heading to Triangle soon for negotiations.
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