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VETERAN Zimbabwean coach Paul Moyo has guided Botswana Railways Highlanders back into the BeMobile Premiership after a season in the Northern Region Division One football league in the neighbouring country.
An elated Moyo, who was lured out of retirement by Botswana Railways last year, is happy about his return to competitive football.
“I thought I had quit the game. I was enjoying my time in my rural home and these guys insisted that I return to Botswana to coach.
“When you are a football person you can never say the doors are completely closed to the game. I took up the challenge and went to Mahalapye to work with the side and at the end of the season we gained promotion,” he said.
In an interview last year when he was in retirement at his Empandeni home, Moyo cut a lonely figure of a man who was missing the intimacy he had enjoyed with the game in the last 50 years.
He said it was hard adjusting to life outside the beautiful game’s intriguing routines.
Moyo, who has had stints with Hwange, Zisco and Notwane and national teams in both Botswana and Zimbabwe, said he was looking forward to the challenge.
“It will not be easy at all at that level. We will have to work hard.
“Management is keen to see us do well, they want the team strengthened so we have some work to do.
“The standard of the game here has improved. I might have to look for some talent in Zimbabwe,” he said.
BR Highlanders were relegated at the end of the 2011/12 season to Division One.
Moyo steered the side back to the Premiership after finishing second to Division One league winners Sancao of Maun.
He has won several accolades in Botswana and at the turn of the century he guided Notwane to the second stage of continental football competitions.
Impressed with what he had achieved at Notwane turning players like Fabian Zulu, Innocent Ranku and Pontsho Moloi into stars, he was roped into the Zebras technical team.
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